"Füle slams Turkey on media freedom
Published: 04 March 2011
EU hopeful Turkey ranked a lowly 138th among 178 countries covered by a recent survey called the '2010 Press Freedom Index', published by 'Reporters Without Borders'.
The countries en route to EU accession rank as follows: 2) Iceland; 47) Bosnia and Herzegovina; 62) Croatia; 68) Macedonia; 80) Albania; 85) Serbia; 92) Kosovo; 104) Montenegro; 138) Turkey.
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''The European Commission is following with concern the recent police actions against journalists, including the detention today of Nedim Şener, Ahmet Şık and others and the arrests last week of ODA TV site administrators Soner Yalçın, Barış Terkoğlu and Barış Pehlivan,' Füle said in a statement."
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