Two complaints against the Twitter ban in Turkey

A press and two Internet law experts filed two complaints today against the ban on Twitter at .

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The Union of Turkish Journalists, a very large organization with 3.300 members, filed a complaint in an Ankara court, while two lawyers specializing in the law challenged the ban in Turkey's Constitutional Court, as first reported by Times.

Both complaints argue that the ban violates the right to freedom of information, which is protected by the Turkish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Constitutional Court of Turkey, the Times notes, has the power to overturn the ban, but it is not clear whether the two complaints have any chance of success with the status of Turkey.

Turkey blocked the social network on Thursday, but it seems that Turkish users of the social network have found ways to bypass the block.
On Sunday, the Turkish government responded by blocking IP social networking, and DNS of Google, but Turkish users are still using Twitter through Virtual Private Networks and the Tor network.

Η διεθνής κοινότητα καταδίκασε την απαγόρευση και ζήτησε από τον Τούρκο Πρωθυπουργό Recep Erdoğan να δώσει πρόσβαση στο κοινωνικό δίκτυο. Τόσο ο Λευκός Οίκος όσο και το Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ, προέβησαν σε δηλώσεις από την Παρασκευή, αναφέροντας ότι η απαγόρευση έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τις ελευθερίες των Τούρκων. Και η πρώην υπουργός Εξωτερικών Χίλαρι Κλίντον, ένθερμη υποστηρίκτρια της ελευθερίας του διαδικτύου, δημοσίευσε μέσω του κοινωνικού δικτύου:

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