Today Prime Ministry said that they have no choice but closing Twitter.
They try to hide the biggest theft in republic history, but now everybody know how Erdogan stole more than 1 billion $ and gave kill orders on innocent people. Organise crime party Akp is collapsing.
Turkey has blocked Twitter hours after embattled Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened to close it down ahead of a key election, after audio recordings purportedly demonstrating corruption among his associates were posted on the social network.
Just before midnight, access to the social network was blocked, Hurriyet Daily reports.
“We now have a court order. We will wipe out Twitter,” the Islamist-leaning leader told a crowd of adulating supporters during a campaign rally in the northwestern city of Bursa on Thursday, AFP reported.
“I don't care what the international community says. They will see the Turkish republic's strength," Erdogan added.
Multiple recordings have emerged not just on Twitter, but also on Facebook and YouTube, purportedly showing Erdogan – whose AK Party dominates the parliament – illegally meddling in political, legal, business, and media affairs.
In one recording, he instructs his son to hide tens of millions of euros worth of cash in the house. In another, he tells off an editor of a major newspaper for producing negative coverage. Erdogan has dismissed most of the recordings as “vile fakes.”
The leader also threatened to shut down Facebook – which is used by 35 million Turks – last month.
Largely in response to the stream of revelations, a new law was passed last month that allows websites to be taken down without a court order, on grounds of reported “privacy violations.”
The run-up to the local elections on March 30 – which will be followed by parliamentary and presidential polls – has been marked by constant rancour, with allegations of fraud adding to the protests over corruption and the suppression of political and civil freedoms from the opposition.
But the AK Party, which has been in power since 2002, is set to maintain its supremacy, if polls are to be believed.
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