Turkey has restricted access to Twitter, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to shut down Twitter and other social media platforms.
Turkish Twitterers - who can still access the service via SMS - have responded in the best way possible: by mocking Prime Minister Erdogan's attempts at censorship with an endless stream of memes.
Some have taken to using the art style made famous during President Obama's 2008 election:
#turkeybannedtwitter this tweet is only possible through vpn apps. pic.twitter.com/6aydNvxPpp
- Mali Erdogan (@malierd) March 20, 2014
Others have pointed out the absurdity of taking Twitter so seriously:
The country banned from tweeting is also where users enjoy twitter most #twitterisblockedinturkey pic.twitter.com/4cZYa2dSBe
- beko (@bekirbasarozer) March 21, 2014
This one's a play on the error message a site gives you when it can't find the page you're looking for:
Not found. :) After Twitter ban. via @tutturolsov pic.twitter.com/L0EfFifCCB
- Abdullah Ayasun (@abyasun) March 20, 2014
This one re-envisions the Turkish flag as a Pac-Man eating up the Twitter logo.
Anger fuels creativity in #Turkey over #Twitter ban. pic.twitter.com/h0dNuOYUQo
- Ayla Albayrak (@aylushka_a) March 20, 2014
This one's my favorite:
Higher Power ?? pic.twitter.com/UxTYccORE1
- Selin Imer (@SeLin_Imer) March 21, 2014