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A fraudster has been asking for photos of women?s breasts online posing as a representative of the Health Ministry, prompting a warning from the ministry to only trust its official social media accounts.

Asking for ?a few shots? of their breasts from young women, the fraudster claimed to be a representative of the ministry working for public health. 

Turkish authorities have told daily Hürriyet that they blocked access to a popular link shortening service due to a "technical error," causing a brief outage that triggered a nationwide outcry.

This is a call to the government: Please do not hesitate to take Turkey off the Internet grid. It is the ultimate solution to all of your problems. I do not understand why our government is still trying to reason with small companies like Facebook and Twitter. Our government should not waste their precious time with these companies and their executives.

Turkey has lifted a ban on access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after social media websites complied with an Istanbul court's order to remove images of a Turkish prosecutor taken hostage by leftist militants, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Turkey blocks access to "166 websites"

ANKARA -- Turkish authorities have ordered access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube blocked to prevent publication of images of a Turkish prosecutor killed last week.

If the Lord of the Rings universe has the Battle of Helm?s Deep, the first epic clash in the famed Tolkien series, then Turkey?s highly polarized social media world has the virtual political battle of April 3, 2015.

More than six million followers of Turkey's former president Abdullah Gül saw a series of nationalist messages on his Twitter account after it was hacked on April 4.

Anonymous hackers who seized the verified account, @cbabdullahgul, posted Pan-Turkist messages, while also criticizing political Islam.

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Kevin Spacey, however, seemed willing to show his humorous side during the “Celebrate Success” awards of the “Prince Trust” philanthropic organization on Thursday.

Excited after meeting Prince Charles, the American actor decided to get a selfie, catching the Prince in the frame!

Twitter Inc has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on March 10.

A Tweet by Hugo Dixon assigning blame earned a response by none other than Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis, when the former criticised statements by the latter: