Turkey’s president has accused the government of acting outside the law after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s administration banned Twitter, a measure the US has likened to “book burning”.
President Abdullah Gul’s attack on the ban – imposed after Twitter was used to spread corruption allegations against Mr Erdogan’s government – comes as Turkey steels itself for further leaks on the microblogging platform in the last days of a highly charged election campaign dominated by the allegations against the prime minister.
In a further development yesterday, Turkey shot down a Syrian jet it said had crossed over into Turkish airspace, the latest in a series of clashes between the neighbours.
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