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The Telecommunications Directorate has blocked access to popular video sharing platform YouTube hours after a leaked voice recording in which Turkey's foreign minister, intelligence chief and a top army general are heard discussing the developments in neighboring war-torn Syria, uploaded onto YouTube on Thursday.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to close down Twitter, two weeks after saying he would shut down Facebook and YouTube “if necessary.”“We now have a court order. We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic,” Erdoğan said at his campaign rally in the western city of Bursa on March 20, 10 days before the upcoming local elections.
In the latest fallout of last summer's Gezi protests against the government's redevelopment plan for a park in central İstanbul, two academics were expelled from İstanbul's Marmara University Faculty of Communication on Tuesday for joining the protests in June.
The university administration allegedly launched an investigation into students and academics who were believed to have taken part in the Gezi Park protests. Upon the conclusion of the administrative inquiry into claims that two academics, Figen Algül and Can Özbaşaran, did not attend lectures as they had complied with a call to strike issued by the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) in early June, the administration ruled to expel them.