
European Commission executive vice president for cohesion Raffaele Fito on Wednesday said the European Union “views with concern attempts to undermine freedom of expression and media pluralism in the Turkish Cypriot community” .
He released the statement in response to a question from Cypriot member of the European parliament Costas Mavrides regarding reports that Turkey had filed an extradition request against veteran Cypriot journalist Sener Levent .
Those reports appear