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Court Restores Access to Twitter in Turkey

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A court in the city of Suruc in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa Province ruled Wednesday to restore access to Twitter in the country, which was blocked earlier in the day in accordance with a previous decision by the same body, CNN Turk reported.

A picture taken from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Sanliurfa province, shows a Turkish solider standing as smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on June 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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ANKARA (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, a court in Sanliurfa prohibited the publishing of any photographs or videos from the scene of Monday's terrorist attack in Suruc, which left 32 people dead and more than 100 injured.

On Monday, a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb near a cultural center in Suruc, where Kurdish activists had gathered to discuss the reconstruction of the Syrian city of Kobani, damaged in attacks by the Islamic State. The Turkish government has blamed ISIL for the blast.

According to Turkish media, because of this ban, Turkish Internet users could not access Twitter for a period of approximately four hours on Wednesday. After all the photographs and footage from the scene of the attack in Suruc were deleted from the social networking service, access to Twitter was restored for users in Turkey.

There has been no official statement on the matter.

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