Twitter is facing problems in Turkey yet again, this time being threatened into blocking certain content posted on its website in order to avoid censorship in the country.
Turkish officials ordered a court order in Adana on Thursday, demanding that news organizations stop reporting on a raid conducted by military police on trucks that were allegedly heading to Syria last year and carrying weapons for extremists to fight the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to The Register.
The Turkish government has since denied the allegation, saying the trucks were going to Syria to deliver humanitarian aid and that revealing details of the raid could put national security in jeopardy.
BirGun, a news outlet in Turkey, was responsible for leaking images of the documents showing the raid and was discovered by Turkish officials to have kept tweeting content related to the issue, Digital Trends reported. The government responded by ordering Twitter to remove BirGun's account or else it will no longer allow the site to operate in the country.
Twitter took down messages posted by news organization that showed images of the leaked documents but refused to remove the account, as it believed such a move was unnecessary.
Turkey's threat towards Twitter follows almost a year after the country blocked the site due to several users posting content they claimed would expose alleged corruption among close associates of the Prime Minister at the time, Digital Trends reported. However, the site would return two weeks later after users spread the word on the issue.
Despite having some of its messages blocked, BirGun has continued to post new ones connected to the police raid and has received numerous re-tweets from Twitter users looking to show their support.
Nu Wexler, spokesperson for Twitter, said the company will "continue to work diligently to protect the rights of our users and preserve access of millions of Twitter users in Turkey."
