Ankara - Several internet service providers in Turkey blocked access to Twitter on Wednesday in line with a local court ruling to prevent the distribution of images of a suicide bombing two days ago, a senior state official said.
The official said the communications technologies authority, the BTK, was not involved in the ban and that efforts were underway to have it lifted.
Turkey will lift a block on access to Twitter shortly, after the micro-blogging site removed images related to a suicide bomb attack blamed on Islamic State, a senior Turkish official told Reuters on Wednesday.