Tag Archives: Twitter

Hurriyet Daily News: Turkey blocks Twitter, after Erdogan vowed ‘eradication’

'We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says,' Turkish PM Erdoğan said at his campaign rally in Bursa. DHA Photo

Turkey has blocked access to Twitter, hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to close down the social media platform. “We now have a court order. We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic,” Erdogan said at his campaign rally in the western city of Bursa on [...] → Read the full article…

99GetSmart.com: Turkey: citizen journalism under attack; facebook collaborates

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Posted by SnakeArbusto and greydogg, 99GetSmart Submitted by Turkish political analyst / blogger, Gürkan Özturan, from Istanbul Update from Turkey 7 July 2013: The Bar Association in Izmir organized a press conference stating that the Twitter arrests in the aftermath of the Gezi protests were based on illegally gathered information and no court decision. The police had staged a pre-emptive arrest of the [...] → Read the full article…

Police is “working on” Twitter, interior minister says

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Reminding that 3 policemen were suspended within an investigation and announcing today’s general strikes as “illegal”, Interior Minister Muammer Güler said they are working on social media.     Interior Minister Muammer Güler made a statement on the Gezi Resistance. “We are working on the social media. We believe we need to do some legal regulations there,” he said. Some [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet Daily News: Turkish actor threatened over his Gezi Park support

Famous actor Memet Ali Alabora has said he is being threatened by unknown people over his support for the Gezi Park protests, after a Turkish daily showed him as one of the leading figures of “a plan to topple the Turkish Government.” Daily Yeni Şafak claimed on June 10 that a theatre play called “Mi Minor,” allegedly supported by an [...] → Read the full article…

Haaretz: Erdogan: For every 100,000 protesters, I will bring out a million from my party

PM says the redevelopment of Gezi Park is being used as an excuse for the unrest and warns the main opposition Republican People’s Party against stoking tensions. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years on Saturday, as thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Istanbul and Ankara [...] → Read the full article…