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 Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country. Users reported on Friday that they were forwarded from twitter.com a statement from Turkey's telecoms regulator, TIB, which cited court orders for the site's apparent closure. The statement cited four orders as the basis for blocking the site, where some users in recent weeks have posted voice recordings and documents purportedly showing evidence of corruption among Erdogan's inner circle. "I don't care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic," Mr Erdogan said earlier on Thursday. Panic measure 
 
 Following his speech, Erdogan's office said he was referring to what it called Twitter's failure to implement Turkish court orders seeking the removal of some links and that they may be left with no option but to ban the platform. This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "wipe out Twitter" following damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle.
– In Turkish Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest feud with social media, Twitter access has been blocked and he has threatened to entirely wipe out the service. "We now have a court order. We'll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic," he fumed at a campaign rally yesterday, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Erdogan has been enraged in recent weeks by leaked recordings and documents revealing corruption in his inner circle, the BBC notes. Turkish users trying to access Twitter are being redirected to a statement from the country's telecommunication regulator that cites court orders against the site, although Twitter has posted a message telling users how to keep accessing the site via SMS, reports Al Jazeera. Erdogan—who blasted Twitter as a "scourge" after it was used to organize protests last summer—has also threatened to ban Facebook and YouTube, which was banned in the country until 2010 because of videos deemed "insulting to Turkishness."