Turkey's prime minister continues to be in a war of battle against Twitter and when lost the first battle after the decision of the Constitutional Court, is now preparing to blame it for tax evasion.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has changed strategy and is in Plan B, which is to completely defame Twitter, accusing him of tax evasion. He does not intend to fight only Twitter, but Facebook and YouTube same to you, saying they may be violating the law in the same way.
Erdogan said Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are international companies created for money and profit, and that Twitter is evasive.
"These companies, like any international company, will comply with my country's constitution, laws and tax rules," Erdogan said.
Erdogan had a few weeks ago promised that Twitter will "disappear". His first attempt at this led to the complete banning of the network inside Turkey shortly before the local elections in Turkey. Quite conveniently, Turkey stated that Twitter refused to "download" published links leading to information about members of the ruling party.
Since people use Google DNS and the like services to bypass censorship, the country's ISPs were forced to intercept all such connections. Shortly after Twitter became inaccessible to Turks, so did YouTube, for the same reasons, especially since YouTubeforeignin a few video in which Turkish officials discussed a possible military intervention in Syria.
The international community blamed Turkey for infringement βασικών ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων, λέγοντας οι απαγορεύεσεις είναι ένα πλήγμα για τη δημοκρατία σε μια χώρα που ήλπιζε να γίνει μέρος της Ευρωπαϊκής Unions.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court, to which Twitter had come, ordered the government to lift the ban. A few days later, a lower court issued a similar ruling banning YouTube, which was overturned within hours. The initial decision states that the 15 videos should be censored, but the rest of the site will remain open.
Google has filed a request with the Constitutional Court to order lifting the ban just as it did with Twitter, but there has been no response so far.
