The tech giant Google said on Thursday that it is investigating reports that its video-sharing website, YouTube, had been blocked in Turkey, days after similar action was taken against Twitter.
A source at the prime minister's office told Reuters that the government had taken action against YouTube after voice recordings, purportedly of senior officials discussing a potential military operation in Syria, created a 'national security issue'.
The source said that Turkey was in talks with the video-sharing platform and may lift the ban if YouTube agreed to remove the content.
'We're seeing reports that some users are not able to access YouTube in Turkey. There is no technical issue on our side and we're looking into the situation,' Google said in a statement emailed to the Guardian.
The move came after Turkey's telecoms authority (TIB) blocked access to Twitter on Friday. That created outrage in Turkey, where social media is widely used, and a court overturned the block on Wednesday.
The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is battling a corruption scandal, and a stream of anonymous postings purportedly revealing government wrongdoing has appeared on the social media platform in recent weeks.
Friday's Twitter block came hours after Erdoğan vowed on the campaign trail to get rid of Twitter. He said on Tuesday that the network 'was threatening national security' and that it had refused to co-operate with the Turkish authorities.
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