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Turkey blocks Twitter to prevent broadcasting Monday’s bombing in Suruc
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:29
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Turkey briefly blocked access to Twitter on Wednesday to prevent the distribution of images of Monday’s deadly bombing in the country’s southeast.
The images were used by activists to call for protest against the Turkish government over its failure to prevent the bombing, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The images showing the moment of the explosion were outlawed in Turkey, with all websites, including Twitter, ordered to remove the content.
The block on the microblog site was ordered by a local court in the city of Suruc and enforced by Turkish internet providers. It was lifted hours later after the microblogging site complied with the order …. https://www.rt.com
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