Europe maintains the overall highest press freedoms worldwide despite rollbacks in Greece, Montenegro, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Among the 42 countries ranked in Europe in a report out on Thursday (1 May) by the US-based NGO Freedom House, Turkey has seen the greatest decline.
The NGO scales the rankings by looking at how media is affected by a country's laws, politics, and economy.
Media in Turkey was previously rated as "partly free". The NGO has now ranked it as "not...
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