Twitter suspends access to “some content” in the country less than 24 hours before the start of the elections
May 13. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has promised that he will not hinder the process of transition of power if he is defeated in the elections this Sunday before returning to denounce the Western media for the umpteenth time for interference in the electoral campaign.
“This question seems ridiculous to me. We came to power through democratic means. If our nation decides otherwise, I will do what democracy asks, and nothing more,” Erdogan declared this past Friday night in a televised appearance on the that he was asked if he wanted to hold on to power.
“The will of the nation cannot be compromised,” Erdogan added on his last day of the campaign, in which he again attacked Western media for meddling. “I am reading his headlines. ‘Erdogan must go’, they say. It is not his business. The West cannot decide. That is up to my country,” he said during a rally in Istanbul reported by the ‘Daily Sabah’.
“We are competing with those who are trying to disrupt the ‘Century of Turkey,'” Erdogan insisted on his grand program of reforms and public works on the occasion of the country’s centenary.
The Turkish president took the opportunity to also criticize his great rival in these elections, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, whom he accused of “applauding” the Kurdish armed organization of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, considered by Ankara as a terrorist group and with which it is now in armed conflict.
Likewise, also to Kiliçdaroglu for his claims that Russia interfered in the Turkish elections through deeply false content. “It’s a shame. What can you say if I tell you that the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany rig the elections?” Erdogan protested.
In the last hours, it should be noted that the social network Twitter has announced this Saturday that it will restrict access to “some content” in Turkey, without giving more details about it.
“In response to the legal process and to ensure that Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, today we have taken steps to restrict access to some content in the country,” the account responsible for the company’s relations with the States announced.
“We have informed account holders of this action in accordance with our policy. This content will remain available in the rest of the world,” the division adds.
