<sod>Despite legal provisions, media freedom in Turkey has steadily deteriorated from 2010 to 2014.<ref name=FH/> Since 2013, [[Freedom House]] ranks Turkey as "Not Free".<ref name=FH>[[Freeedom House]], [https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/turkey Turkey 2015 Press Freedom report]</ref> [[Reporters Without Borders]] rank Turkey at the 149th place out of over 180 countries, between [[Mexico]] and [[Democratic Republic of Congo|DR Congo]], with a score of 44.16<ref name=RSF>[[Reporters Without Borders]][https://index.rsf.org/#!/index-details/TUR Turkey]</ref> In the third quarter of 2015, the independent Turkish press agency [[Bianet]] recorded a strengthening of attacks on the opposition media during AKP interim government.<ref>[http://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/168464-increasing-pressure-on-press-democracy-in-question Bianet, Increasing Pressure on Press: Democracy in Question, MEDIA MONITORING REPORT 2015 3RD QUARTER. Retrieved July 21, 2016]</ref> The final 2015 [[Bianet]]'s monitoring report confirmed this alarming trend and underlined that once regained majority after the AKP interim government period, the Turkish government further intensified its pressure on the country's media.<ref>[http://bianet.org/english/media/171048-media-in-last-three-months-of-2015-you-name-the-title Bianet, Media in Last Three Months of 2015; You Name the Title, MEDIA MONITORING REPORT 2015 4TH QUARTER. Retrieved July 21, 2016 ]</ref><eod>
<sod>Despite legal provisions, media freedom in Turkey has steadily deteriorated from 2010 onwards.<ref name=FH/> Since 2013, [[Freedom House]] ranks Turkey as "Not Free".<ref name=FH>[[Freeedom House]], [https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/turkey Turkey 2015 Press Freedom report]</ref> [[Reporters Without Borders]] ranked Turkey at the 149th place out of over 180 countries, between [[Mexico]] and [[Democratic Republic of Congo|DR Congo]], with a score of 44.16<ref name=RSF>[[Reporters Without Borders]][https://index.rsf.org/#!/index-details/TUR Turkey]</ref> In the third quarter of 2015, the independent Turkish press agency [[Bianet]] recorded a strengthening of attacks on the opposition media during AKP interim government.<ref>[http://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/168464-increasing-pressure-on-press-democracy-in-question Bianet, Increasing Pressure on Press: Democracy in Question, MEDIA MONITORING REPORT 2015 3RD QUARTER. Retrieved July 21, 2016]</ref> [[Bianet]]'s final 2015 monitoring report confirmed this trend and underlined that once regained majority after the AKP interim government period, the Turkish government further intensified its pressure on the country's media.<ref>[http://bianet.org/english/media/171048-media-in-last-three-months-of-2015-you-name-the-title Bianet, Media in Last Three Months of 2015; You Name the Title, MEDIA MONITORING REPORT 2015 4TH QUARTER. Retrieved July 21, 2016 ]</ref><eod>