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TURKISH PRIME MINISTER Recep Tayyip Erdogan has backtracked on a threat to shut down Facebook and YouTube in Turkey.
Erdogan, who is fighting allegations of corruption, said last week that the government was considering steps to prevent secretly wiretapped recordings from being leaked on the internet, including shutting down Facebook and YouTube.
The government insists the corruption allegations and leaks are the work of the followers of an influential US-based Muslim cleric who have infiltrated police and the judiciary.
In comments published in pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper Tuesday, Erdogan said the government was determined to fight “fabricated and dubbed” recordings on the internet but acknowledged that a total shutdown of social media is “out of question.”
Last month, parliament passed a law that increased government controls over the internet.
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He did a bit of research and found people could easily bypass the block and came to the realisation he was wasting everyones time.
Erdogan who’s a corrupt & turns blind on murderous extremists entering Syria illegally, tries to silent his people by shutting down Facebook & YouTube. He’s unfit in high office, therefore he should resign.
Every time I see a story like this I find myself wondering how long it will take before we have politicians with enough cop on to realise that they simply cannot control the internet! Maybe when Creighton’s crusade to eradicate rape from Facebook comes to an end we might be half way there.
Good it was an Orwellian idea to begin with.
Stupid fookn country
Their own worst enemy.
Every year of this guys seemingly permanent reign is another step away from EU membership.
A wise man!
‘We were going to ban FBook because we didn’t want leaks to the outside world that showed what a shower of wa#kers we are’ fair enufffff.
Got a my regular haircut from my Turkish barber today, he says Erdogan has spirited 500mill from Turkish exchequer, bought luxury yachts for son and daughter, and has 500 security men, heavily armed to protect him, shurely shome mishtake??? This is democracy, cf Ukranian kleptocrats and all the others , when will we wake up?.. Pass the Shiraz, Domnhait
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