Court orders Twitter ban removal

A Turkish court  on Wednesday ordered the lifting of last week’s Twitter ban imposed after audio recordings implicating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a wide-ranging corruption scandal spread via the social media site.

The administrative court in Ankara will inform Turkey’s telecommunications regulator TIB of the decision, and access to Twitter is expected to be restored later in the day, private NTV television said. Mr Erdogan’s government, which has been dogged by protests and is engulfed in the corruption scandal, has also banned thousands of websites.
The Twitter ban took effect on March 20 after Erdogan defiantly vowed to “wipe it out”.