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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Turkey should reverse all anti-press measures and laws - Committee to Protect Journalists

Turkey should reverse all anti-press measures and laws

April 9, 2014

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,

We are writing to express our concern about the Turkish government's recent steps to restrict the independent Turkish media. In the recent past, your country was hailed as a model for a region aspiring for freedom, democracy, and tolerance. But today Turkey is being criticized as a country that is drifting away from the principles and practices that define true democracy.

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