Twitter blocked two accounts on Sunday that had been used to spread corruption allegations against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his government and his inner circle. The move came after high-level meetings between the government and executives from the company last week, and after the Turkish government provoked a storm in March by trying to ban the network entirely. Between them, @Haramzadeler333 (which translates as "Sons of Thieves") and @Bascalan (which means "Prime Thief", a play on the Turkish for prime minister) had close to one million followers on Twitter. Twitter's global policy team said it withholds content only "after due process", such as after having received a court order, and in a tweet said it would not do so "at the mere request of a gov't official".