Friday, March 21, 2014

Velocity Alert: Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to 'Eradicate' It

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Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to 'Eradicate' It

There's electioneering, and then there's what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday on the campaign trail. "We will eradicate Twitter," Erdoğan told a rally in Bursa in the west of the country. "I don't care what the international community says.

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