ANKARA
A Turkish opposition lawmaker is suing Turkish prime minister for the comment he made Saturday on the Constitutional Court when it lifted the twitter ban on April 4.
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on Saturday that the court's decision to unblock access to Twitter is "an intervention in politics and administration."
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Mahmut Tanal argued that Erdogan’s comment ignores Turkey's penal code Article 301, which makes it a crime to insult Turkish nation and the state.
Tanal argues that Erdogan's comment "insults" the Constitutional Court's decision to lifting the Twitter ban.
Erdogan previously said on April 4th that, "We have to obey it [the court order lifting Twitter ban], but I don't respect the decision because the court did not take judicial procedure into consideration."
Erdogan also criticized Twitter as "they did not respect 'our sacred values and our shared national values, because they do not comply with judicial decisions and because they became tools for attacking our national security."
On March 27, Turkey's telecoms authority announced an "administrative" block on the video-sharing website YouTube, after leaked recordings of a security meeting of high-ranking officials appeared on the site.
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