Twitter Banned In Turkey With Support Of Nation's Own President

Jones, Bryony, Laura Smith-Spark, Ivan Watson, and Gul Tuysuz. "Turkey's Twitter Ban Condemned -- Even by Nation's Own President." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

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The Turkish Government banned Twitter in the country of Turkey and has caused an outrage with the people of Turkey. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports the ban of Twitter because Erdogan believes that social media is the cause for anti-government rhetoric. Turkish Twitter users finding a way across the ban immediately voiced themselves against the Turkish Government and President saying “He is afraid. Afraid of democracy, afraid of freedom, afraid of people.”

Turkish analyst Fadi Hakura says that Twitter has been targeted because it’s a way to block the public’s access to information amid the government’s corruption scandal and in the run-up to key local elections at the end of March. The Prime Minister’s top priority is to win these elections so that his authority remains in Turkish politics, but with him supporting the ban on Twitter you can only expect disapproval from voters for Erdogan. Keep a close eye on this because as seen before, when a government censors the people’s voice you can only expect protest from the people.