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 stated that Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are international companies created for money and profit, and that Twitter is tax 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 it will "disappear" Twitter. His first attempt at this led to the total ban of the network inside Turkey shortly before the local elections in Turkey. Conveniently enough, Turkey stated that Twitter refused to "take down" published connections leading to information relevant to 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 the Turks, so did YouTube, for the same reasons, especially since YouTube hosted some videos in which Turkish officials discussed a possible military intervention in Syria.
The international community has accused Turkey of violating basic human rights, saying the bans are a blow to democracy in a country that hoped to become part of Europeanς 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.