Baykurt, Burcu (2014) Turkey’s Twitter ban is easily bypassed, but there are no easy answers to Erdoğan’s abuse of power. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (24 Mar 2014). Website.
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Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced a block on the use of Twitter in the country. Burcu Baykurt writes that while the actual ban on Twitter is largely unworkable from a technical standpoint, the move is aimed at stabilising Erdoğan’s political support base ahead of local elections. More importantly, the fact that the prime minister can implement such a controversial policy under his own initiative highlights the excessive power of the executive in Turkey, raising important questions about democratic legitimacy.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2017 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72059 |
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