Opposition slams media freedoms in Turkey

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    Associated Press: Worldstream, July 23, 2013 International, 5pp
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      ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's main opposition party says as many as 64 journalists are in prison and a further 123 are on trial, accusing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government of turning the country into "semi-open prison" unfit for journalists to live in. The Republican People's Party on Tuesday released a report on imprisoned journalists in Turkey, a country where human rights groups say press freedoms are in decline and self-censorship by media groups is rife...