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The European Parliament’s draft report on Turkey includes harsh criticism on press freedom, fair trials and prolonged periods of detention, reports BIA News Center.
The Turkey report discussed by the European Parliament (EP) in its Tuesday session contains harsh criticism on press freedom, fair trials and prolonged periods of detention.
The report will be presented to the European Parliament in Strasbourg/France today as a draft resolution to be approved. It states that press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey have “worsened in a worrying manner.”
The report openly reflects concern about press freedom in the Turkish media, censorship and auto-censorship. It calls for recognizing principles of press freedom.
The parliament “is concerned about obstacles created by elements from within the Turkish state”.
European Parliament also deplored that the actual murderers of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink have not been revealed despite the according decision of the ECHR on Sept. 14, 2010.