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<span class="bfonts"><div class="data_head news_row_block left-to-right head label_4" data-style="padding-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(2, 68, 128); font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; direction: ltr !important;">&nbsp;A Turkish court has lifted a ban on Twitter over graphic images of Monday&rsquo;s Suruc bombing in southeastern Turkey.</div>

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<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Sanliurfa 2nd Penal Court of Peace lifted the restriction Wednesday afternoon.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">An ruling earlier Wednesday had blocked access to websites and social media platforms hosting the images, made moments after an explosion killed 32 people in Turkey&rsquo;s southeastern province of Sanliurfa.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">The Suruc court brought in the restrictions after local prosecutors called for a ban.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Images of the blast had gone viral on social media and news outlets.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Monday&rsquo;s bomb targeted a youth group holding a press conference, and also left more than 100 people wounded.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">The restrictions came after Suruc prosecutor&rsquo;s office appealed for a ban on the terror attack footage being broadcast.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Another Turkish ban on social media access was imposed in April over the publication of images showing a Turkish prosecutor killed in a hostage crisis.</p>

<p data-style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Mehmet Selim Kiraz had been taken hostage by an outlawed Marxist-Leninist group on March 31 at Istanbul&rsquo;s Caglayan Courthouse. He was later shot by his captors.</p>
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