Erdogan disrespects Turkey’s top court
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which could be responsible for dealing with corruption allegations against his administration, has “denigrated national values” by overturning his ban on Twitter.
On April 2, Turkey’s Ankara-based Constitutional Court decided unanimously that the government must immediately end the ban on access to the social media site Twitter. The ban had gone into effect on March 20, only hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “root it out.”
On April 4, Erdogan provided his first public reaction: “We have to obey the Constitutional Court’s decision, but we don’t have to respect it,” he said. “While the court sided with an American company in this decision, it denigrated our national values.”