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The European Commission has adopted two financing decisions, amounting to 560 million Euro, to support the education of refugees in Turkey and ensure their access to higher education and for migration and border protection.

Amid debates on “foreign-funded” media in Turkey, Prof. Süleyman İrvan has spoken to bianet: “It is not easy to keep on doing independent journalism in Turkey’s conditions. Public funds are not channeled to independent newspapers, but to other places.”

The Media Freedom Rapid Response and its partner organizations have expressed concerns about the proposals to introduce new regulation of “foreign-funded” news in Turkey and condemned the targeting remarks about critical media outlets.