<p>April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Betty Liu reports on the top news stories from around the world on today's Global Outlook. (Source: Bloomberg) Reuters</p><p>2:11 a.m. CDT, April 4, 2014 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticized a constitutional court ruling lifting a ban on Twitter, saying the court should have rejected an application to restore access to the micro-blogging site.</p><p>"We complied with the ruling but I do not respect it," Erdogan told reporters at a news conference before departing on a trip to Azerbaijan. "It should have been rejected on procedural grounds." Access to Twitter was blocked on March 21 in the run-up to local elections and Turkey's telecoms authority lifted the two-week-old ban on Thursday after the court ruled the block breached freedom of expression.</p><p>(Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall and Catherine Evans)</p><p><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-turkey-twitter-20140402,0,4646235.story">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/world/middleeast/turkey-lifts-ban-on-twitter.html">Turkey Lifts Twitter Ban After Court Calls It Illegal</a> (New York Times)</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/turkey-lifts-twitter-ban-court-ruling">Turkey lifts Twitter ban after court ruling</a> (The Guardian)</p><p><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Turkey-urged-to-lift-Twitter-ban-after-court-ruling-347378">Turkey urged to lift Twitter ban after court ruling</a> (Jerusalem Post)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dwjL-W-L9FU3LWMJkRek-Qt4-9_lM&authuser=0&ned=us">522 additional articles.</a></p>