Turkish government has lifted the ban on micro-blogging platform Twitter, after the court ruled it illegal as its breaches freedom of speech.
Access to Twitter was blocked on March 21 in the run-up to local elections last Sunday to stem a stream of leaked wiretapped recordings of senior officials that had appeared on the site, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to say he would “root out” the network.
Turkey’s Official Gazette on Thursday morning published the Constitutional Court’s ruling from Wednesday, further piling pressure on the telecoms authorities to lift the ban, which had faced widespread international condemnation.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the court ruling, saying the court should have rejected an application to restore access to the micro-blogging site.
It merits mentioning that YouTube remains offline in Turkey, which was blocked one week after blocking Twitter. Legal challenges against the YouTube ban are pending.
─ via Reuters
