Late at night here in Istanbul, the city's internet users suddenly faced the same problem: none of us could get onto Twitter.
The apparent blocking of the website is dramatic, but not surprising. Hours before the site went down, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan mocked嘲笑 Twitter at a public rallyg示威. He promised to "wipe out"消滅 the site in this country. "The international community can say this or that, I don't care at all," he warned.
The Tu, many of whose officials are regular Twitter users, complained that the website failed to implement court rulings法院裁決 ordering the removal of various links. Those links are thought to be alleged recordings of the prime minister's private phone conversations. The recordings have been widely circulated流傳的 on Twitter - many internet users believe that conversations reveal揭示, 表明, 流露 evidence of corruption腐敗.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/03/140321_witn_twitter_turkey.shtml
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