Turkey makes it to top 10 in the annual report on censorship, attacks and violation of rights towards art and artists published by Freemuse, a Denmark-based freedom of speech organization.
Social objection that started in 2013 with the Gezi protests against the AKP government has been followed by policies of minacious crackdowns, censorship and auto-censor against the press. “Elimination” efforts firstly run through the bosses were actualized by mass discharges through statutory decrees or trustee appointments to media outlets in 2016.