With its blockade Twitter outraged many Turks Erdogan – even their own president Abdullah Gul is criticizing the ban on text-messaging service. Ironically, by tweet.

It is an open dispute on the Turkish head of state. President Abdullah Gül has condemned the ban on short message service Twitter sharp in his country. The President sat down on Friday over the law adopted in the night disobeying it and said via his Twitter account, the ban was unacceptable. It is not technically possible anyway to ban global platforms such as Twitter entirely explained Gül. He positioned himself against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had enforced the blockade.

If there are crimes committed via Twitter , only individual contributions on court decisions towards them may be erased , so Gül . He hoped that the ban would not remain long in force . Against the new rules already formed strong opposition , mass protests seem inevitable.
The government of Prime Minister Erdogan had left block access to Twitter in Turkey at night , arguing that the company’s refusal to delete criticized by Turkish courts posts . ” Twitter and things like that we will pull out by the roots . What this says the international community to interest me at all,” Anatolia news agency quoted the head of government.

Indeed, there is a simple reason for Erdogan’s harsh response : About Twitter anonymous opponents of the government had pointed out videos on YouTube in which secret recordings of telephone conversations Erdogan is heard. The Premier sees these videos as part of a ” smear campaign ” his opponents. Their power, so much to put pressure on him , he sees rooted in the social networks . His opponents , he therefore also called ” robots lobby ” .

Twitter Censorship In Turkey:Federal Government criticizes – but sees no censorship

The federal government criticized the blocking. ‘It is not our idea of ​​freedom of expression, to prohibit or exclude any kind of communication ways, “said the deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz in Berlin. The lockout did not correspond to the “what we mean by free communication in Germany”. On the question of whether it constituted censorship, Wirtz said, “I do not agree with this rating.” However, they stressed that the federal government will point in the conversation with the Turkish government on the importance of freedom of expression for Germany.

Early March had brought a ban on Internet services this week Erdogan. At that time, directed the plans against YouTube and Facebook – and even then it continued sharp criticism of President Gül. This had then ruled his consent to a corresponding law: “A blockade is not at issue.”

In Turkey, Twitter users complain significant failures of the online short message service. When trying to open the Twitter.com site, some users encountered a message that apparently comes from the Turkish regulatory authorities. It stated that the site had been blocked for judicial way.
Twitter itself with informed to investigate the reports. In addition, the U.S. company released, based in San Francisco a tweet was explained in the users in Turkey, as they continue to settle messages via SMS.

Tweet of President Gül: “It is not to endorse that social media platforms are completely blocked.”