The Turkish government has denied on Thursday a number of journalists from EU member States access to a press conference at the EU assistance in the amount of 275 million euros for Turkey were announced. As the journalists Organisation reporters without borders (RWB) said, many of the journalists of international media, including more than half of the German correspondents in Turkey and the daily mirror correspondent, since the beginning of the year on your new accreditation.
Because of the delay to the Reporter on Thursday at a press conference of the EU were able to present-Vice-President of the Commission Jyrki Katainen and the Turkish Minister of Finance, Berat Albayrak in Istanbul does not have a valid press card and were therefore rejected. The EU and Turkey, signed at the Meeting of Katainen and Albayrak, an agreement which provides for EU aid of $ 275 million for a railway project in Turkey.
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a Total of at least 50 foreign reporters in Turkey to wait around three months after the submission of the application still on the accreditation. Albayrak said, may the waiting correspondents would not get their press cards at all. Without the foreign journalists are forced to leave Turkey. (Tsp)
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