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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Council of Europe faults Turkey on media freedom - Monsters and Critics

Council of Europe faults Turkey on media freedom

Nov 15, 2011, 12:52 GMT

Ankara - Turks have appealed more than 1,000 convictions in free expression cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, with the number of journalists being prosecuted having a 'chilling effect' on Turkey's media, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe said Tuesday.

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