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Yes, that is the formal pretext, but everybody knows that Erdogan's damat is the real reason


That's misrepresentation of the root cause. The block was there, because it's easy to block. Uber is blocked in Turkey, you can't even access uber.com. Pastebin.com is blocked due to a data leak was posted in there a couple of years ago. Imgur is banned due to pro-terrorism post, AFAIK but I'm not sure. There's no damat (son-in-law) in those cases. Damat is a multiplier but not a reason.




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