{"id":7834,"date":"2014-03-22T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2014-03-22T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T07:41:25","slug":"twitter-website-blocked-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=7834","title":{"rendered":"Twitter website &#8216;blocked&#8217; in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tweett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7835\" alt=\"tweett\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tweett-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tweett-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tweett.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Some users trying to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\">twitter.com<\/a> website are apparently being redirected to a statement by Turkey&#8217;s telecommunications regulator.<\/p>\n<p>It cites a court order to apply &#8220;protection measures&#8221; on the website.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to &#8220;wipe out Twitter&#8221; following damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s James Reynolds in Istanbul reports that he is unable to access Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic,&#8221; Mr Erdogan said earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke after some users had posted documents reportedly showing evidence of corruption relating to the prime minister &#8211; a claim he denies.<\/p>\n<p>His office said that Twitter had not responded to Turkey&#8217;s court rulings to remove some links, forcing Ankara to act.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has so far made no public comment on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 10m Twitter users across Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the country lifted its ban on YouTube &#8211; two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country&#8217;s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country. Some users trying to open the twitter.com website are apparently being redirected to a statement by Turkey&#8217;s telecommunications regulator. It cites a court order to apply &#8220;protection measures&#8221; on the website. This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}