Turkey's President Slams the Twitter Ban — on Twitter

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Turkey's President Slams the Twitter Ban — on Twitter
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to eradicate Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on Thursday, but Abdullah Gül, the current president of Turkey, had an entirely different view. He couldn't have chosen a better platform to express it on: Twitter.

“A complete shutdown of social media platforms can**t be approved,” Gül tweeted (https://twitter.com/cbabdullahgul) on Friday. "Also, as I mentioned many times before [...] it is **t technically possible to shut down Twitter anyway."

See also: Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/dictators-block-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Twitter was banned in Turkey on Thursday at around 4:30 p.m. ET, based on a recently passed law allowing Turkey's telecommunications regulator (TIB) to shut down or block websites due to "privacy violations." However, many still found workarounds (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/how-to-tweet-from-turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-president-twitter-ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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