A Turkish court has ruled that a blanket ban on YouTube violated human rights and ordered most of the restrictions be lifted, citing a court ruling this week that scrapped a similar ban on Twitter.
The Turkish telecoms authority, TIB, blocked access to both sites after anonymously leaked recordings embarrassed the government of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The YouTube ban was imposed a week after the Twitter ban.
The Twitter ban was lifted on Thursday, a day after Turkey's constitutional court ruled it illegal, and the telecoms authority told internet service providers to start restoring access.
A court in Ankara cited the lifting of the Twitter ban in its ruling on Friday in the YouTube case, saying the ban was too broad and instead blocked access to 15 videos.
Erdoğan, who had vowed to 'rip out the roots' of San Francisco-based Twitter, said on Friday he had no choice other than to comply with the constitutional court ruling but did not respect it.
He said the court was protecing a tool of foreign influence, adding that 'all of our moral values are being set aside'.
Erdoğan has repeatedly dismissed the leaked tapes - which point to wrongdoing by officials and members of his inner circle - as fabrication, and part of a political plot against him.
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