For internet users, especially social media users who uses Facebook,twitter and Google in Turkey this is surely a grey time period for sure. According to two famous news sites the guardian and bbc,this is because earlier this week as for the Turkey court order, Turkey government took a decision to ban and close all sorts of connections to Youtube,Facebook and Twitter from their general public and threatened to do the same to Google also.
The main reason for this is some propaganda images circulating among the social media sites across Turkey. Those images showed Istanbul prosecutor who was taken as a hostage and held at gunpoint by an armed gang. Few hours later the hostage situation, the prosecutor was shot dead by the gang and they was shot down by Turkey special forces. Government related authorities had commented that these images can have a misguided idea that the Turkey government has connections with terrorists groups like ISIS and therefore the sites has to banned.
After the ban, twitter, youtube and facebook has agreed to remove the related images and content from their sites and therefore the government has lifted the bans for now. Although this is not the first time Turkey has banned social media from the general public. Last year also the Turkey government banned twitter and youtube and after a time period the ban was lifted. The internet users say that there is a good chance for history to repeat in Turkey with in coming government actions.
wow! governments working like straight arrows… Even the tamilnet.com is available to the Sri Lankans under the new regime “Yahapalanaya”