"Press Freedom: The Politicization of Turkish Media
Seda Savas and Aaron Stein | 17 Sep 2009
World Politics Review
The European Union's 2007 Ascension Partnership with Turkey (.pdf) calls for Turkey to reform its laws to adapt them to the Law of the European Union. Among the required reforms is legislation to protect and expand the media's freedom of expression, which has been stifled in Turkey by broad interpretations of the Penal Code -- specifically a clause known as Article 301 -- as well as simmering domestic tensions between secular Kemalist and Islamist groups."
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