Ankara: Twitter has gone dark in Turkey after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to ‘wipe out’ the social network after it refused to remove links deemed illegal.

A man passes by a poster of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who banned Twitter yesterday in the country. However, his move backfired, as the website was inundated with tweets from his country, criticising him. Pic/AFP