Twitter has challenged Turkey in court to cancel a $50,000 fine for not removing content from its website.
Turkey temporarily banned access to Twitter several times in the past for failing to comply with requests to remove content. But, this $50,000 fine imposed by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) was the first of its kind imposed by the Turkish authorities on Twitter.
Twitter, in its lawsuit, argues that the fine goes against Turkish law and should be annulled. The content the Turkish authorities have asked to be removed include tweets about the PKK, an organization also considered as a terrorist one by the US and the EU.
The Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said that Turkey would not give up on its demand for Twitter to pay the fine.
