Obama Should Ask Erdogan To Respect Press Freedom in Turkey
By: Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on May 15.
If US President Barack Obama brings up the controversial issue of freedom of speech tomorrow [May 16], at his meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House, it would be the most surprising news of all. Not only is the US administration facing its own flap over the seizure by the Justice Department last year of phone records at The Associated Press, the world's most widely disseminated news service, Turkey has long been mired in issues of press freedom even as it espouses such values.
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