Turkey bans YouTube after Twitter


Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan is clamping down on social media. - AFP

ANKARA: Turkey banned video-sharing website YouTube on Thursday, having blocked Twitter a week earlier after both were used to spread audio recordings damaging to the government, local media reported.

The move came hours after the release of an audio file on YouTube, purporting to be of a security meeting in which top government, military and spy officials discuss a possible scenario for military action inside Syria.

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