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4 hours agoErdogan Travels to France, Meets Macron
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Paris today to negotiate with France's President Emmanuel Macron at their first official meeting since May 2017. The disagreements between Ankara and Paris over the state of freedom of expression and the imprisonment of journalists in Turkey will be the themes of [...]
The disagreements between Ankara and Paris over the state of freedom of expression and the imprisonment of journalists in Turkey will be the topics of discussion in their agenda.
Turkish presidency spokesman ♫brahim Kalin said at a press conference on January 4th that Macron's remarks are based on a <x0-mungage information “, if not on “prejudice”, reports “Hurriyet Daily Nes”, Periscopi broadcast.
Kalin said Erdogan would submit Macroni documents by telling him those journalists who are prosecuted “because of their non-journalist activities. ”
“Those trying to overshadow Turkey's fight against terrorism through rhetoric on freedom of expression must better understand Turkey's reality,” he added.
The visit comes at a time when Turkey's negotiations to join the EU have almost stopped amid strong criticism of the government's austerity measures taken since the coup attempt. /Periscopi/
