Turkish Govt. want to be far from social media because as our last report said that Turkish Government going to restrict Social-Media over Turkey; Erdogan said twitter “a troublemaker” on june2, it means Erdogan blamed social media to increase the popularity of protests.

After that on Wednesday Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Binali Yıldırım stated that Twitter refused the Turkish government’s request for cooperation during the Gezi Park protests

One more thing Yildrim stated that Facebook with them from a long time but twitter not however, due to time zone differences between the US and Turkey, cooperation can be difficult.

The Gezi Park demonstrations erupted across Turkey after riot police cracked down on May 31 on protesters who had been camping in the park, which lies next to İstanbul’s famed Taksim Square, to oppose government plans to remove trees and develop over the green space.

If we talk about the last three weeks , there were a plenty of tweets were there containing false info about the protest and in response of that İstanbul governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu and many Turkish ministers started using Twitter actively during the protests.

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The Turkish government recently stated that it is planning to bring out a law to regulate social media. Interior Minister Muammer Güler highlighted that the proposed law will not impose any restrictions on social media but aims to halt what he called online “terrorism.” He said his ministry is working with the Justice Ministry to enact a new law which will enable authorities to investigate and prosecute individuals who publish false and provocative online posts.

Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesman Hüseyin Çelik went on to rule out a ban on social media, adding that the government will only push for limited regulations. “We will not do anything out of step with EU standards,” he said.

During the protests, Governor Mutlu posted many tweets regarding the “fake” and “manipulated” stories which were circulating in the social media websites. In one of his tweets, he showed a photograph posted by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Hüseyin Aygün in which a person had several plastic bullet wounds on his chest. In the photo’s caption Aygün said, “Fascist dictator’s police did this to a protester with plastic bullets.” Governor Mutlu refuted the claim that the person in photograph was wounded in Gezi Park protests and said that it was in fact a man wounded during the Arab Spring.

Furthermore, the interior minister also said that there has been an enormous amount of provocative false information seen in social media and that “all such claims” have been shown to be false.

Yıldırım did not elaborate on the nature of the government’s request to the social media platforms.

In the meantime, Facebook rejected claims ofsuch cooperation with Turkish government. “Facebook has not provided user data to Turkish authorities in response to government requests relating to the protests,” an official statement from Facebook reads. “More generally, we reject all government data requests from Turkish authorities and push them to formal legal channels unless it appears that there is an immediate threat to life or a child, which has been the case in only a small fraction of the requests we have received,” the statement said.

“We are concerned about legislative proposals that might purport to require Internet companies to provide user information to Turkish law enforcement authorities more frequently. We will be meeting with representatives of the Turkish government when they visit Silicon Valley this week, and we intend to communicate our strong concerns about these proposals directly at that time,” the statement added.

VIA- TodaysZaman