{"id":56245,"date":"2014-12-16T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56245"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:44:03","slug":"watchdog-denies-ban-of-two-hours-on-twitter-56245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/watchdog-denies-ban-of-two-hours-on-twitter-56245\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog denies ban of two hours on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twitter-ban-turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twitter-ban-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twitter-ban-turkey.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twitter-ban-turkey-280x176.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/twitter-ban-turkey-570x360.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>Turkey&#8217;s telecommunications watchdog has made the clarification after Twitter users complained of lack of access for nearly two hours Monday.<\/h1>\n<p>Twitter has not been blocked in the country, Turkey&#8217;s telecommunications watchdog said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog made the clarification after Twitter users complained they were unable to access the micro-blogging site for nearly two hours Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no prevention on access to Twitter in the country,\u201d the Information and Communication Technologies Authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>However, the watchdog acknowledged it received some complaints from users of Turkcell, Turkey\u2019s largest operator, who said they were unable to access the popular micro blogging site for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An investigation into the allegations has started and an investigator from the authority has been sent to Turkcell,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Turkey had blocked Twitter for a brief period over the company\u2019s alleged refusal to remove some Web links.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s telecommunications watchdog has made the clarification after Twitter users complained of lack of access for nearly two hours Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,167,194,173],"tags":[6046,52822,21558],"class_list":["post-56245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-technology","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-turkey","tag-twitter-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}