The recent press freedom index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was very kind to Turkey, listing the country at 138th place out of 178 countries surveyed. One of the main reasons for the low ranking was the growing number of Turkish journalists facing legal problems for basically doing their jobs. As RSF put it, Turkey is in the midst of a "frenzied proliferation of lawsuits, incarcerations, and court sentencing targeting journalists."
The Associated Press takes a look at some of these cases and what might be behind them in a new article, here. And an excellent resource of freedom of expression issues is the Bianet website, which can be found here.
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