Twitter blocked, Turkish users say
The US Department of State is "very concerned by any suggestion that social media sites could be shut down.”
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.
“We came to [the] conclusion that in order to relieve our citizens, there is no way left beyond blocking Twitter, which disregards court orders, does not obey the rule of law,” the statement said. “Our Prime Minister has drawn attention to this issue in his Bursa rally speech."
The US State Department expressed concern at the reported development.
