According to information that the TGS Secretary of General Organization Mustafa Kuleli shared based on the data of Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, there are 95,000 workers in the Press-Publication-Journalism sector. Of the se workers, 24,000 are journalists and 9,000 are unemployed. Among 15,000 active journalists, 3,000 are union members. The number of media workers who made use of collective labor agreement is around 2,000.
Most of those who were fired are still unemployed. Many of them are looking for jobs in different areas. I personally found a job in the news site Özgürüz. But when you have so many unemployed friends, you don’t feel like doing journalism. I can’t say that we are doing our job as willingly as before. But in the end, they closed the door on us, but we entered from the chimney. There are numerous friends who could not enter from the chimney.”