Twitter rules out Turkey office amid tax row

ISTANBUL, Apr 16 (AFP): Social networking company Twitter on Wednesday rejected demands from the Turkish government to open an office there, following accusations of tax evasion and a two-week ban on the service.
Speaking after two days of closed-door talks with Turkish officials, Colin Crowell, Twitter's head of global public policy, told AFP: "We did not agree on opening an office in Turkey."
"Making greater investments here to grow our business has a relationship to whether or not we can count on the continuity of our service," he said.
"And an investment climate in which our service has been shut off would give any company reservations about making an imminent investment," Crowell said in an interview in Istanbul.