An Ankara court lifted the Turkish government's ban on YouTube on Friday.
The court allowed 15 specific videos to remain blocked, according to RT. The lift follows a similar ruling of Turkey's ban of Twitter.
The court in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, decided to have only specific videos blocked, because a complete ban of the video sharing website was too broad.
The court added that blocking access to YouTube was against the freedom of expression fundamental rights. It has not been stated when the ruling will take effect, Click2Houston reported.
Turkey's Constitutional Court also ruled Wednesday that the ban of Twitter, a famous microblogging website, violated the freedom of expression, and demanded that access be restored to its citizens.
Since the ruling on the YouTube ban was not made by the country's Constitutional Court, it may be ruled by a court with higher jurisdiction, RT reported. As a result, access to the website will remain blocked for now, and viewers have to wait for an appeal from the government.
The YouTube block came after a video of an alleged conversation between top government officials involving a potential false flag operation in Syria as a justification for a military attack. The leak was dismissed as a smear campaign against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as a threat to national security. The conversation is one of 15 videos that remains banned.
Erdogan said some of the wiretap leaks were "immorally edited material", Click2Houston reported. One of conversations leaked involved a man who sounded like Erdogan instructing his son to hide millions of dollars in cash from police investigators. However, Erdogan acknowledged other wiretaps, such as one where he instructs the head of a significant news network to cut the live broadcast of a rival's political speech in parliament short.
Turkey's government accused Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media as tools to spread lies and false information.
Erdogan shared his opposition of the lift of the Twitter ban at a press conference on Friday, RT reported.
"We are of course bound by the Constitutional Court verdict, but I don't have to respect it," Erdogan said. "I don't respect this ruling."
