Meet the Twitter Accounts That Turkey Banned

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Kevin Collier for The Daily Dot 2014-04-21 19:00:04 UTC

As the dust settles around Turkey's largely failed attempted to ban Twitter, the government has identified the two accounts that pissed it off the most.

And if you don't live in Turkey, or you're somewhat Internet-savvy, you can now see them.

Twitter has been cagey about the fact that it recently agreed to censor two accounts to Turkish users, part of the compromise the company made after the country ineffectually tried to ban Twitter for a few weeks.

So, in full accordance with the Streisand Effect, we present to you the two accounts, both of which are (surprise!) some of the best original sources of leaks damning to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP Party.

The first, @BAŞÇALAN, happily tweets about Erdoğan and his son, Bilal. For example, these accounts share links to alleged phone conversations between the two, which depicts Dad encouraging his boy to take bribes and later to hide money. The Erdoğans didn't deny that the voices were theirs, but claimed the audio was "montaged" to make the contents of the call seem worse than it was.

The second account, @HARAMZADELER333, is in the same vein, though he's also known for tweeting evidence from the highly publicized corruption investigation into the AKP party in 2013.

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This article originally published at The Daily Dot here

Topics: Erdogan, turkey, Twitter, US & World, World

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