Ron Burgundy Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 By Tulay Karadeniz and Asli Kandemir ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey blocked access to Twitter and YouTube on Monday after they refused a request to remove photographs of an Istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants, taken hours before the prosecutor was killed in a shootout last week, officials said. Facebook said it had complied with a Turkish court order requiring it to restrict access to some content or face a block on its service. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said a prosecutor had demanded the block on access to the social media sites because some media organizations had acted "as if they were spreading terrorist propaganda" in sharing the images of the hostage-taking. Istanbul prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz died from his wounds last Tuesday after security forces stormed the office where members of the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) had taken him hostage. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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