Recently Twitter has gone under siege from purported Turkish government officials. Twitter users believe it’s an effort by the government to limit distribution of graphic images showing Turkish nationalists using violence against Kurdish citizens.
The tension in Turkey has been increasing, due to a suicide bombing in July which has disrupted a temporary ceasefire. Attacks, protests, and riots are now common occurrences while Turkey officials attempt to bandage relations by pushing active forms of censorship onto outlets and “free speech” sites like Twitter.
#BreakingNews turkey have blocked Twitter in Kurdish Areas. They do everything to silences Kurds so they can kill Kurds. #twitterkurds
— Heval Soro (@Firyayek) September 8, 2015
This censorship has now become common, as far as Turkey is concerned. Turkey even created a new internet law which allows Turkey telecommunications the authority to block any website without seeking a court ruling first. Officials use this tactic and Twitter scapegoating to hide the blame. Official Taha Un claims that the government “is not punished Turkish users, but Twitter itself”.
Why do the Turkish officials hate Twitter so much? Well, it became popular for users after summer of 2013, where users spread information about the Gezi Park protest. It was a better alternative for users to get accurate information compared to the censorship of mainstream media outlets. So, striving to maintain control, Turkey officials moved that form of censorship the Twitter’s broader platform. It’s no wonder they hate it.
Laughably enough, Prime Minister Erdogan thinks that they Twitter is the problem. It has nothing to do with the state of the country, that instead, they “have a menace that is called Twitter. The best example of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.”
Similar to the way China censors content, Turkey utilizes a centralized control infrastructure that makes it easy to monitor traffic and facilitate control measures. If you’re also looking to browse other websites besides Twitter, and you currently resides in Turkey, you might want to consider VPN service if you value sites like YouTube. In 2010, YouTube did not obey Turkey’s requests to censorship and was blocked.
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