While we were tweeting away this past week advertising this very blog on Twitter, the people of Turkey were doing nothing of the sort. Though not previously mentioned on this blog, for the past two weeks there was a ban on the use of Twitter in Turkey.
That ban was lifted today after the constitutional court ruled on Wednesday that the block breached freedom of expression.
Twitter was blocked in the first place because a stream of leaked recordings of senior officials were tweeted out before a local election.
Pictured above: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Erdoğan dismisses these leaked recordings (which point to wrongdoing by officials and members of his inner circle) as lies.
YouTube on the other hand remains offline in Turkey. It was blocked one week after Twitter.
What really made me think while reading about this was what the response would be to something like this happening in the United States. I suppose it only seems like the Turkish people have been handling this quietly to the average U.S. news consumer. But there has to be so much going on that we do not see. Do you think the Turkish people have responded properly? How would people of the U.S. handle this happening here? Comment below with your thoughts.
Sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/turkey-lifts-twitter-ban-court-ruling
K.Y.
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