Twitter appeared to be abruptly blocked for many users in Turkey Thursday, March 20, after the Turkish Prime Minister’s office announced that the social media microblogging site would be banned in Turkey.
"In the ongoing situation, Twitter has remained indifferent to remove certain links despite court orders favoring the citizens of the Turkish Republic,” a statement from the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office, published by Sabah and translated by Al-Monitor’s Tulin Daloglu, said.