Twitter access restricted in Turkey

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA: Turkey has restricted the access to Twitter after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to eradicate the social networking platform for leaking the recordings which are damaging government's reputation ahead key local elections this month.

The ban came into light when many users were not able to access Twitter and saw a notice from Turkey's telecommunications authority, citing court orders for the site's apparent closure. Nu Wexler, Twitter spokesperson said, company was "looking into this now," without saying whether an outage had occurred in the country.

Since the last few weeks Internet has been flooded with leaked video recordings and in one of the videos Erdogan allegedly instructs his son to dispose of large amounts of cash from a residence amid a police graft probe. Erdogan, who denies corruption, said the recording was fabricated. Links to the recordings were posted on Twitter.