Turkey restores access to social networks after images pulled

BUSINESS AS USUAL: Access was restored after the social networking websites complied with the court order and took down the offending images.

ISTANBUL: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were functioning normally in Turkey on April 7 after Ankara lifted a ban it imposed on them over images of a Turkish prosecutor killed in a hostage standoff. 

The popular social media sites were blocked for several hours on April 5 after a court ordered a ban on websites that published images of the prosecutor, who was taken hostage by leftist militants at an Istanbul court last week.