{"id":20551,"date":"2013-06-27T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20551"},"modified":"2013-06-27T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:54:46","slug":"turkey-invites-twitter-to-open-an-office-they-can-crack-down-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/turkey-invites-twitter-to-open-an-office-they-can-crack-down-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Invites Twitter to Open an Office They Can Crack Down On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no bones about his view of Twitter as a threat to his regime, dubbing it a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/06\/02\/turkey-pm-twitter-a-danger-to-society\/\">danger to society<\/a>.&#8221; Other officials in his government ruled Twitter &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/06\/11\/twitter-deadlier-than-car-bombs-turkish-officials-insist\/\">deadlier than car bombs<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Twitter sure could make some Turkish officials angry, but since the company has no presence in Turkey there is literally nothing that Erdogan could do. He&#8217;s hoping to change that. <\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s Communications Minister Binali Yildrim is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23079607\">calling on Twitter<\/a> to open an office somewhere in Turkey so that the next time they get mad at them they can go someplace inside Turkey to do something about it. <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Twitter is seen as unlikely to open an office in Turkey just so they employees can be threatened face-to-face next time Erdogan gets mad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no bones about his view of Twitter as a threat to his regime, dubbing it a &#8220;danger to society.&#8221; Other officials in his government ruled Twitter &#8220;deadlier than car bombs.&#8221; Twitter sure could make some Turkish officials angry, but since the company has no presence in Turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20553,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}