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Turkey lifts Twitter ban after court ruling
April 03, 2014
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government waited a day before reportedly lifting the ban on Twitter, following a Wednesday ruling from the nation's highest court.
Turkey lifted its ban on Twitter Thursday, a day after the nation's highest court struck down a government prohibition, an official in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office told Reuters.
The country's constitutional court ruled Wednesday that the ban violated free expression, but Erdogan's government, which imposed the ban two weeks earlier ahead of last Sunday's municipal elections,did not immediately act.