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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11506

8 March 2016
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) turkey
Europeans urge respect for freedom of the press

Brussels, 07/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Europeans have been calling on Turkey to respect freedom of the press. On Friday 4 March, Turkish newspaper Zaman, which opposes Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was put under state control.

Upon arriving at the EU-Turkey summit, and without mentioning the Zaman case specifically, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini underlined the need for Turkey, as an EU candidate country, “to respond to...

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