On Thursday 27th March 2014, the Turkish government blocked the country's access to YouTube, after banning Twitter earlier, in an effort to quell anti-government sentiment prior to local elections that held on March 30 2014.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that social networks are facilitating the spread of wiretapped recordings that have been politically damaging. The YouTube block reportedly came about after a video surfaced of government officials discussing the possibility of going to war with Syria.
