The war on Twitter, the blowback from Ukraine

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan follows through on his threat to shut down Twitter, as Saudi Arabia and Qatar also crack down on social media; US-Russia collaboration on Syria and Iran is so far holding on, despite tensions over Ukraine.
A Turkish national flag is seen through a broken Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. Turkey's courts have blocked access to Twitter a little over a week before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal that has seen social media awash with alleged evidence of government wrongdoing. The ban came hours after a defiant Erdogan, on the campaign trail ahead of key March 30 local elections, vowed to "wipe out" Twitter and said he did not care what
A Turkish national flag is seen through a broken Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. - REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
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The Twitter crackdown

This week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan followed through on a controversial Internet law by banning the use of Twitter in Turkey ahead of local elections on March 30.

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