Google was given four hours to comply with government demands to remove images of a prosecutor held at gunpoint who later died
Google has removed links to images of a Turkish prosecutor being held hostage - to avoid being banned in the country.
Mehmet Selim Kiraz was killed after leftist militants took him hostage at a court building in Istanbul last week.
Turkish officials temporarily blocked Twitter and YouTube after they did not respond to an order to remove photographs showing a hostage taker pointing a gun at Mr Kiraz's head.
The government branded the content terrorist propaganda, and broadcasters who showed the images were not allowed to cover his funeral.
Facebook has remained available in Turkey throughout - after following court orders quickly to remove the offending content.
Access to Twitter was re-established on Monday evening after it complied, while YouTube was accessible a few hours later.
In a separate court ruling on Monday the authorities gave Google four hours to comply with their demands to remove the material, which it did.
Mr Kiraz was taken hostage because he led an investigation into the 2013 death of a boy during anti-government protests.
He died along with the hostage takers during a shootout with police to end the siege.
Critics say the moves by the government are an attempt to silence dissenting voices before the national elections in June.
Twitter says Turkey made the second-largest number of requests for data information, after the United States, in the second half of 2014
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