According to TÜİK’s data in 2015, journalists have the highest rate of being unemployed among university graduates. As the unemployment rate was 9.9% in 2014, the figure was 29.1% in the field of journalism.
A journalist who had lost his job while working in Gülen Movement Media says: “When I was among them I was like a zombie as I don’t have anything to do with religion. Yet now I am forced to prove that I am not a member of FETÖ.”