Up until now, 12 culture and art centers have been closed in Kızıltepe, Dargeçit, Mazıdağı and Nusaybin provinces of Mardin, Silvan province of Diyarbakır, central Şırnak and its İdil, Silopi and Cizre provinces.
It is said that many journalists who were unemployed following the coup d’etat of 1980 went into the ad-writing business. Semra Pelek, who was working as a politics editor in Milliyet and was sacked in August 2015 with 10 fellow journalists, went into a similar job. Of course, this was after a year of unemployment.