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The Grand Turk
Turkey Says Twitter Ban is to Prevent 'Character Assassination'
2014-03-23
[An Nahar] Turkey's government on Saturday defended its internationally condemned ban on Twitter as a "preventive measure" to stop "character liquidations" following a wave of corruption investigation leaks.

"Twitter has been used as a means to carry out systematic character liquidations by circulating illegally acquired recordings, fake and fabricated records of wiretapping," the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet...
 said in a statement sent to Agence La Belle France Presse in English.
Posted by:Fred

#3  140 characters or less assassination.
Posted by: charger   2014-03-23 11:45  

#2  Something tells me Erdogan is really loosing this Twitter Battle and he is really a sitting duck.

(Charater assassination)
Posted by: One Eyed Fluting5523   2014-03-23 10:39  

#1  You can't assassinate somebody's character, if it's been dead for years.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-03-23 09:48  

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