Q&A: Tackling Twitter in Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey – The war of words continues to reverberate in Turkey after a decision to ban Twitter and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s promise to “wipe out” the social media website. Turkey pushed through new legislation last month allowing authorities to shut down websites and track users’ browsing histories Turkish Twitter users changed DNS settings and used Virtual Private Networks to reach Twitter’s website, and traffic has not dropped off significantly after the ban. Al Jazeera spoke with Burhan Kuzu, head of Turkey’s parliamentary constitutional commission and a senior member of the AKP, about the Twitter ban. Turkish and global social media users have mocked moves by the government to restrict access to Twitter Al Jazeera: Turkey is the only country among the European Union member or candidate states to ban Twitter.
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