ANKARA (Reuters) – Social media firms operating in Turkey must open representative offices in the country, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Tuesday after Ankara held talks with Twitter aimed at resolving a dispute which led to a two-week ban on the site. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans government blocked Twitter temporarily in March, drawing international […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkeys telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday, after the constitutional court ruled the block breached freedom of expression, an official in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans office said. Access to Twitter was blocked in the run-up to last Sundays local elections, after a stream of leaked wiretapped recordings of […]