Turkey obscure Twitter and do not plan to block Facebook

Turkish court ruled Thursday to block micro-blogging site "Twitter" after complaints by Turkish citizens that the site violates privacy, said NTRA Turkish "Pte K".

Comes cloaking hours after the speech violent speech, Turkish Prime Minister, "Recep Tayyip Erdogan," in a crowd of supporters of the ruling Justice and Development Party, in Bursa Turkey, and attack it on "Twitter" and vowed to "eliminate" him, and he does not care what he has to say the international community about it.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement on its website, said that "Twitter" ignored previous requests to delete some of the content, and added: "Due to the lack of another option was blocking the site in line with the decisions of the court to avoid any potential harm to the citizens in the future."

For his part, said the site "Twitter" It is looking it did not issue a formal statement. But he published a tweet directed to the site's users Turks to guide them in how to continue publishing tweets via SMS.

This is not the first development between the Turkish government and social networks, such as "Facebook" and "Twitter" and "Google", where the government in June 2010 to withhold some services, "Google" in Turkey.

It was two weeks ago, Erdogan said that Turkey may overshadow the social networking "Facebook" and the video sharing site "YouTube", especially after his political enemies exploit to publish audio recordings alleging his involvement in corruption cases.

But a senior official in Turkey said on Friday that Turkey has no plans at the moment to obscure the "Facebook" or any of the social networking sites other, "The path to close Twitter taken in the framework of the decision of the court as a result of failure to overcome a problem with the management of the site."

The number of users of "Twitter" in Turkey more than 10 million registered users, including the President of Turkey, "Abdullah Gul," and a number of senior officials in the Turkish government.