Twitter is back on in Turkey after a constitutional court ruled that a government-imposed ban on the social media service was a breach of free expression.
The country's telecom authority lifted the 2-week-old ban, after it was blocked in the run-up to last Sunday's local elections.
Turkey's Telecommunications Presidency blocked access to Twitter on March 21 after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he would "eradicate" the network following a series of anonymously posted audio clips that purported to expose corruption at the top levels of government.
A TIB statement said it was in the process of restoring access to the Twitter, but it appears that a block on YouTube, imposed last week, remains in place.
The move proved controversial, however, even within Erdogan's own government. President Abdullah Gul, like many other users, employed a text-to-tweet application that circumvented the ban. He tweeted: "One cannot approve of the complete closure of social media platforms."