Freedom House: Turkey is “Not Free”
The US-based NGO says “Press freedom hit decade low” and cites the decline in Turkey as one of the reasons
01.05.2014
Global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade, according to a Freedom House report released today.
The decline was driven in part by major regression in several Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, Libya, and Jordan; marked setbacks in Turkey, Ukraine, and a number of countries in East Africa; and deterioration in the relatively open media environment of the United States.
According to Freedom House’s just released report Freedom of the Press 2014, Turkey scored 62 out of 100 (the lower the score, the better the press freedom status), which means the country can no longer hold its former “partly free” status and is now “not free.”
Freedom House also gave Turkey 13 for economic environment, 26 for political environment and 23 for legal environment.
"Significant decline took place in Turkey, which fell into the 'not free' category, as well as in Greece, Montenegro and the United Kingdom," the organization said.
You can read the full Freedom House report and check out the individual country scores here:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-press#.U2I_mc1z9hM