Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched the annual World Press Freedom Index and Turkey was ranked 157th among 180 countries, the same ranking as last year. “The rule of law is a fading memory in the “New Turkey” of paramount presidential authority… Turkey is the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists. Spending more than a year in prison before trial is the new norm, and long jail sentences are common, in some cases as long as life imprisonment with no possibility of a pardon,” stated the report.
For the full report; https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2019
18.04.2019
t24.com.tr