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[The Wall Street Journal] Turkey receives a mixed progress report
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The European Union criticized a tax case against Turkey's biggest media group as posing a threat to press freedom, but also praised the government's foreign policies and its overtures to the country's large Kurdish minority, in a progress report on the country's EU membership talks.
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The $4 billion in fines and penalties that Turkey's tax authority is demanding from Doğan Yayın Holding in two cases, "potentially undermine the economic viability of the Group and therefore affect freedom of the press in practice," the European Commission said in a mixed annual progress report on Turkey's bid to join the 27-nation bloc. Olli Rehn, the commissioner for enlargement, told reporters his team had analyzed the Doğan tax case. "I have asked the Turkish authorities to treat this matter very seriously," he said.
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