Turkey Lifts Twitter Ban After Court Ruling

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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 that found the ban unconstitutional and a violation of free speech

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 Recep 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.

Erdogan has crusaded against several social media sites—last week his government blocked YouTube–amid a series of damaging leaks that have been shared across the Internet.