Istanbul ( CNN ) -- A court in Turkey 's capital , Ankara , lifted a ban on the YouTube video sharing website Friday , the semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported . The ruling came a day after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan 's office said Turkey 's ban on the social media service Twitter had been lifted . Ankara 's Golbasi Court opted Friday to lift its March 27 ruling that barred access to all YouTube content , Anadolu reported , but decided to continue a block on 15 specific YouTube links . In its ruling , the court said that blocking access to the website was contrary to fundamental rights and freedom of expression , the news agency said . It 's not clear how soon the ruling will come into effect . Access to YouTube still appeared to be blocked for Turkish users Friday . The restoration of Twitter came after Turkey 's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that the ban violated the right to free expression and demanded that citizens ' access to the popular microblogging service be restored . Several Twitter users told CNN on Thursday that the social media service was now functional inside the country . Disruption to the service began hours after Erdogan threatened to `` eradicate '' Twitter at a campaign rally on March 20 , blaming social media for fueling anti-government rhetoric . The YouTube ban was imposed less than a week later . Turks went to the polls in nationwide municipal elections Sunday . Wiretap leaks . The Turkish government said its YouTube block was a response to the leak of a conversation between top government officials purportedly discussing the possibility of going to war with neighboring Syria . Turkey 's top media regulating agency announced a similar ban on the broadcast of the conversation to television and radio channels . Members of Turkey 's political elite have been battered by a campaign of wiretap leaks recorded by unknown operatives and distributed daily on the Internet for more than a month . Until the purported Syria-related leak , all of the wiretaps seemed to be recordings of phone conversations among Erdogan , his inner circle , government officials and top corporate executives . Erdogan , of the ruling Justice and Development Party , has called some recordings `` immorally edited material , '' including a conversation in which a man who sounds like the Prime Minister purportedly instructs his son to hide tens of millions of dollars in cash from police investigators . But he has also confirmed the authenticity of other wiretaps , in which he is heard instructing the head of a major television news network to cut short the live broadcast of a rival politician 's speech in parliament . Turkey 's government has accused social media platforms , including Twitter and Facebook , of being used to spread false information and lies . CNN 's Gul Tuysuz reported from Istanbul , and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London . CNN 's Ivan Watson and Talia Kayali contributed to this report .
NEW : Access to YouTube still appeared to be blocked for Anadolu users on Thursday . Access to Erdogan was restored in Turkey on Thursday after a Twitter and Facebook ruling . Turkey 's Prime Minister Friday blamed social media for fueling anti-government rhetoric .