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Many young urban Turks have taken to the streets in protest over the Twitter ban<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has defended his government’s ban on Twitter, accusing the website of failing to comply with court orders.<\/p>\n

Mr Simsek told the BBC that no company should see itself as above the law.<\/p>\n

The government banned the website on Friday, after users<\/span> shared information about allegations of corruption against high-level officials.<\/p>\n

Analysts say web users have found many ways of circumventing the ban, which was widely criticised<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Twitter has so far made no public comment on the ban, but the company on Friday posted a message in both English and Turkish telling users how to send tweets via text messages.<\/p>\n

There are estimated to be about 10 million Twitter users in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Mr Simsek, who accepted that banning social-media sites “doesn’t reflect well” on his government, insisted that the ban was not a crackdown on free speech.<\/p>\n

“The Turkish telecommunications watchdog has made a number of statements saying that they have asked Twitter on a number of occasions to remove some content on the back of court orders and Twitter has been refusing to comply,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think any global company, whether it’s a media company, whether it’s an industrial company, it shouldn’t see itself [as being] above the law.”<\/p>\n

The minister said it now looked as if Twitter was working with the Turkish authorities to get the ban lifted.<\/p>\n

A senior Turkish government official told Reuters that talks with Twitter on ending the ban “were going positively”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was said to have been angry that people have used the website to spread allegations of corruption about members of his inner circle.<\/p>\n

In 2010, the country lifted its ban on YouTube – two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<\/p>\n

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

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