Turkey says Twitter agrees to close some accounts, no tax deal yet


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014

ISTANBUL: Twitter will close some accounts in Turkey but will not for now set up an office there as the government wants, a senior Turkish official said late on Monday after talks over a dispute which saw the government ban the site for two weeks. 

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government blocked Twitter and YouTube in March, drawing international condemnation, after audio recordings, purportedly showing corruption in his inner circle, were leaked on their sites. 

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