JOURNALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS RANKS TURKEY 100TH IN "MEDIA FREEDOM"

Hurriyet, Turkey
Oct 24 2006

According to the Paris-based media organization "Journalists Without
Borders," Turkey ranks 100th in the world in the arena of "freedom
in the media." A list published yesterday by Journalists Without
Borders puts Finland, Iceland, Ireland, and the Netherlands in a
tie for first place in this category. Other noteable placements on
the list were Armenia, which ranked immediately before Turkey at 99,
and Denmark, which gained notoriety for the caricature crisis earlier
in the year: Danish media ranked 20th. The US was ranked at 56th,
while North Korea came in last at 168.

Journalists Without Borders declared in May 2002 that Turkey, among
other countries, was an "enemy of the media."