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Reporters Without Borders dubs Turkey prison for journalists

The Reporters Without Borders international human rights organization has published its annual rating of freedom of press and called Turkey a prison for journalists, RIA Novosti reports.

Turkey was put on the 154th position in the rating, losing 6 points, compared with the previous year’s rating.

Despite the third package of court reforms passed in Turkey in 2012, journalists writing about terrorism are often accused of supporting terrorists and jailed.

Adapted from Vestnik Kavkaza