Two prominent Twitter accounts get blocked in Turkey following apparent court order
Turkey’s effort to quell anti-government sentiment on Twitter continues this weekend after two prominent accounts were seemingly blocked from the service’s estimated 10 million users in Turkey, as Reuters reports. The accounts – @HARAMZADELER333 and @BASCALAN – have been used to disseminate information that purportedly implicates Turkey’s Prime Minsiter and other senior politicians in much-rumored corruption scandals, and are followed by 537,000 and 431,000 Twitter users respectively. Both accounts show up fine for overseas users, but those accessing Twitter from Turkey are barred from viewing their content, as screenshots tweeted by users in the country show: Twitter @HARAMZADELER333 ve @BASCALAN hesablarına Türkiyədən girişinə qadağa…
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