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Turkey has lifted its ban on YouTube, two months after blocking access to the video-sharing site.<\/p>\n

The move comes after the country’s highest court ordered authorities to restore access, saying the ban violated laws on freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

The ban was imposed in late March, soon after recordings alleging official corruption were aired on the site.<\/p>\n

Turkey passed a controversial law early this year that let regulators cut off any site without needing a court order.<\/p>\n

The government had also imposed a ban on social networking site Twitter, but that was lifted last month.<\/p>\n

Authorities had continued to block YouTube until now despite decisions from lower courts calling on the government to lift the ban.<\/p>\n

The ruling by the constitutional court is widely seen as a snub to the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which has been a sharp critic of social media sites.<\/p>\n

Both YouTube and Twitter were blocked after recordings of official meetings were leaked and widely circulated.<\/p>\n

One recording involved senior army officers discussing intervention in Syria and others supposedly revealed corruption among people close to Mr Erdogan.<\/p>\n

The block was imposed as a “precautionary administrative measure”, Turkey’s telecommunications regulator had said at the time.<\/p>\n

YouTube was blocked previously in Turkey in 2007 but that ban was lifted in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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