‘YouTube in talks with Ankara

to lift the ban’

Less than a week after a notorious ban on Twitter went into effect, the Turkish government blocked access to YouTube on March 27. The ban was ordered hours after leaked recordings of a key security meeting were published on the video sharing website.

Turkey’s Telecommunication Directorate (TİB) has used its new authority for the first time by blocking Youtube without a court order.

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