Turkish PM Bans Twitter, Turks Set Record for Most Twitter Use

[ncordless]

Turkish users of Twitter, including the country's president, have flouted a block on the social media platform by using text messaging services or disguising the location of their computers to continue posting messages on the site.

In what many Twitter users in Turkey called a "digital coup", Telecom regulators enforced four court orders to restrict access to Twitter on Thursday night, just hours after the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vowed to "eradicate" the microblogging platform in an election speech.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/turkey-twitter-users-flout-ban-erdogan

Erdogan must go.

Stupid laws go unheeded.

Glad to see Turks flout the oppressive Erdogan regime and exercise their human right to free expression.

 

[Madmick]

Power to my Turkish brother hackers-in-arms.

 

[tkotom]

Erdogan actually said "freedom schmeedom".

 

[ncordless]

Erdogan actually said "freedom schmeedom".

His election campaign speeches have been absolutely ridiculous. Here's hoping he's deposed in the nationals.

 

[tkotom]

His election campaign speeches have been absolutely ridiculous. Here's hoping he's deposed in the nationals.

He will be back in power. He has huge support in Turkey. A major scumbag.

'The international community can say this, can say that. I don't care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is"


I think he has gone mad.

 

[ncordless]

He will be back in power. He has huge support in Turkey. A major scumbag.

'The international community can say this, can say that. I don't care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is"


I think he has gone mad.

I don't know. He's had several people in his own party, including President Gul, defy the twitter ban and post very critical messages. He's not so powerful that the rest of the power in the country combined won't take him out. You're right. He's become mad, and needs to be removed before Turkey becomes destabilized. Turkey is THE most strategically important location in the world, and is surrounded by heavily destabilized areas. No way can anyone allow a goofball like Erdogan running things.

 

[Denter]

He will be back in power. He has huge support in Turkey. A major scumbag.

'The international community can say this, can say that. I don't care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is"


I think he has gone mad.

He must have tons of rural and lower class support, because all the Turks I know think he's basically the second coming of Hitler. Granted, they are all wealthier Istanbulites, I'm sure his message plays differently in the sticks of Anatolia.

 

[Videer]

WAR Erdogan! Fite dem conspirators!

 

[Just a username]

He was a positive force earlier, weakened the military stronghold on Turkey's burgeoning democracy and seemed like he really wanted to solve the Kurish question. As time has passed he's gotten more and more authoritarian. This latest decision is utter bs.

 

[Just a username]

He must have tons of rural and lower class support, because all the Turks I know think he's basically the second coming of Hitler. Granted, they are all wealthier Istanbulites, I'm sure his message plays differently in the sticks of Anatolia.

He does. The AKP's mix of mild Islamism and a strive to strenghten business has worked wonders for them in rural areas. Even the Kurds, who now have their own legal parties are voting for them en masse.

 

[jazza]

im a supporter of Erdogan but banning twitter is just shooting himself in the foot

 

[WARserra]

Ataturk would hate Erdogan. That's what happens when you let a bunch of religious yokels pick the leader of your country.

 

[saikyom]

Ataturk would hate Erdogan. That's what happens when you let a bunch of religious yokels pick the leader of your country.

ataturk was the puppet put to rule Turkey and fight against islam after the fall of the great ottmany empire......says a lot.

I don't understand why people ban this or that from internet on their countries.....it's useless because it's easy to find a way around it

 

[Just a username]

ataturk was the puppet put to rule Turkey and fight against islam after the fall of the great ottmany empire......says a lot.

That former great empire was a corpse by the time Ataturk came to power. What he did was completely necessary in order to modernize the country and retain its territorial integrity.

 

[saikyom]

That former great empire was a corpse by the time Ataturk came to power. What he did was completely necessary in order to modernize the country and retain its territorial integrity.

I agree about the "was a corpse" part, but not the rest.

 

[MicroBrew]

Ataturk would hate Erdogan. That's what happens when you let a bunch of religious yokels pick the leader of your country.

Even the rural and working class Turks never struck me as supporting a particularly strict form of Islam, unlike Saudi, Pakistan, Egyptian supporters of Mursi and various other Islamic societies where men and women adhere to strict dress codes.

 

[MicroBrew]

I agree about the "was a corpse" part, but not the rest.

Turkey would be quite backwards if Ataturk hadn't imposed secularism. Secularism helped Turkey be the power it is in the region.

 

[tkotom]

He must have tons of rural and lower class support, because all the Turks I know think he's basically the second coming of Hitler. Granted, they are all wealthier Istanbulites, I'm sure his message plays differently in the sticks of Anatolia.

Why do you say that about Anatolia?

 

[saikyom]

Even the rural and working class Turks never struck me as supporting a particularly strict form of Islam, unlike Saudi, Pakistan, Egyptian supporters of Mursi and various other Islamic societies where men and women adhere to strict dress codes.

don't put "Saudi" and "mursi" in the same bag
Saudis represent Islam and protect it.
while mursi represent "al ikhwan" which is a deviant sect that uses religion to manipulate ignorant.
there's no strict or not strict, there's "islam" the religion the prophet taught us,anyone who makes changes and falsify is no longer practicing "islam" but his own made religion.

 

[Ishaq]

don't put "Saudi" and "mursi" in the same bag
Saudis represent Islam and protect it.

Lol what? You don't have a clue.

I'm sure you're a Wahhabi Madkhali puppet.