Turkey – Europe Seeks Changes on Speech Freedoms – NYTimes.com

By SEBNEM ARSU

Turkey must make strides in safeguarding freedom of speech and of the press if it wants to join the European Union, says a report released Tuesday on the country’s progress in complying with the union’s standards. Among the examples cited in the European Commission’s report were a multibillion-dollar tax penalty on a media group that has been critical of the government and the jailing of more than 100 journalists under a law that limits criticism of the state.

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