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"A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the government to lift its Twitter ban, according to reports.\nThe ruling from an Ankara administrative court asks Turkey's telecommunications authority (TIB) to restore access to Twitter, but it's still unclear when Turks will be able to access Twitter freely again. The TIB can appeal the decision, but it should comply with it in the meantime, according to the local newspaper Hurriyet Daily News.\nSee also: The Moment Turkey Shot Down a Syrian Fighter Jet, Caught on Live TV\nDeputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc reacted to the ruling asking the TIB to respect it.\n\"We abide by the court rulings, that's what the constitution orders. We may not like them, but we abide by them. If this decision is genuine ... then what TIB needs to do after this is obvious,\" Arinc said, according to Reuters.\nThe court order comes five days after Turkey blocked Twitter, accusing the social network of ignoring orders to remove content. At the time, the country's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011Fan pledged to \"eradicate\" Twitter. \nMeanwhile Twitter announced on Wednseday morning that it has challenged the ban as well, filing petitions for lawsuits with the help of Turkish lawyers. The company said that it has been in contact with Turkish authorities trying to hear their concerns and solve the issue. \n\"There are no legal grounds for the blocking of our service in Turkey,\" Twitter's General Counsel Vijaya Gadde wrote in the blog post. \"We expect the government to restore access to Twitter immediately.\"\nTwitter, however, also announced while it awaits the results of its challenge, it has taken down an account that accused a former Turkish minister of corruption, and other tweets, at the request of Turkey's public prosecutor. \nAfter the ban, Turks quickly found ways to get around the ban, however, and sent a record number of tweets. Even after the government imposed tougher measures to block Twitter, Turks sidestepped them using Virtual Private Networks and the anonymizing and circumvention tool Tor. \nA number of organizations and individuals challenged the ban in the courts on Monday. The Turkey's bar association launched appeals in administrative courts in Istanbul and Ankara, according to Reuters. They lost the appeal in Istanbul, but the Ankara court agreed with them and ordered the end of the ban.\nThis story has been updated to add information on Twitter's new announcement and Erdogan's deputy's response to the court order.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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