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Twitter 'blocked' in Turkey

"Late at night here in Istanbul, the city's internet users suddenly faced the same problem: none of us could get onto Twitter. 
The apparent blocking of the website is dramatic, but not surprising. Hours before the site went down, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan mocked Twitter at a public rally. He promised to "wipe out" the site in this country. "The international community can say this or that, I don't care at all," he warned. 
The Turkish government, many of whose officials are regular Twitter users, complained that the website failed to implement court rulingsordering the removal of various links. Those links are thought to be alleged recordings of the prime minister's private phone conversations. The recordings have been widely circulated on Twitter - many internet users believe that conversations reveal evidence of corruption."

Twitter users in Turkey have been blocked in the country. This happened after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip attacked the site on Thursday. He mocked twitter at a public rally. People believe that he blocked it because there were some recordings of private phone conversations.  So maybe these conversations are the evidence of corruption.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. So with this action the Minister has refused the freedom of speech. Nowadays social networks are where people express their ideas, explain what is passing through their minds. And also it’s an instrument to pass information  fast. For this reason you always have to be alert because you never know if someone is recording you. But I think that if he blocked this social network it’s because he had something to hide. Probably another case of corruptions and this minister is deleting himself doing this. How we can change it? I think that the solution exist. It’s easy: using another social network because you can’t control all webs. Even though they try to take away our right of freedom speech, they never can’t do it.

Went down: stop working

Wipe out: destroy completely

Court rulings: official decisions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/03/140321_witn_twitter_turkey.shtml