Turkey has a Twitter blockade set up after the prime minister of the country, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said that he Twitter would be ‘cut off’. The blockage is on the order of multiple courts set up after Twitter denied it would have some left to remove.
The blockade was Thursday night set. “We have a court order. We will eradicate Twitter.”, said Erdoğan during his election campaign, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, “I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will have the power of the Turkish republic of beholding.”
In a persstatement later clarified to the government that Twitter multiple court orders removal of ‘certain links had been ignored. “Technically, there is no other option than to block access to our citizens to protect.” All providers of the country have the order block followed.
Erdoğan seems to be a recent controversial law used to have, writes Mashable, that the telecomautoriteit of the country, the right to websites to conclude on the basis of privacyinbreuken. In recent months Erdogan has already threatened to have Facebook and YouTube to block it. In the past, citizens of Turkey for regularly accessing YouTube and other internet services is denied.