Recently in Türkiye, the government's increasing pressure and harsh stance against free and independent journalists have been heavily criticized, but the government is not backing down from this attitude. When you criticize bad governance or pursue corruption, they detain you through law enforcement or throw you in jail. In other words, they do not even allow you to practice your profession.
However, the job of journalists is to report everything, good and bad, to the public objectively and to conduct research on their behalf. Because the public might not investigate a topic themselves, and this is the duty of journalists. Yet, in Türkiye, this has become much more difficult for true journalists trying to do their jobs.
The government, forced to release some journalists thanks to public pressure, wants to detain and arrest that person again at the first opportunity. That is to say, they do not want any journalist who does their job properly. This is because journalists play an important role in enlightening the public and changing their opinions.
I salute all journalists who defend independent and free journalism and dedicate their entire lives to this cause.
Journalism is not as easy a profession as people think; on the contrary, they may need to conduct research under incredibly difficult conditions. Especially when an irregularity is detected and there are officials within the government involved, the government strictly opposes its exposure because if it comes to light, the public will react strongly against the government. So, the government prefers to silence journalists because it fears society's reaction, but I think it is impossible for them to do so. In democratic countries, they have never been able to silence journalists; on the contrary, the more they try to silence them, the more new journalists emerge. There are many independent journalists like me who will take on this duty in the public sphere, and their numbers will continue to grow.
In summary, greater support for journalists is crucial.
One day, when the government changes in Türkiye, all the irregularities committed by that government to date will be revealed. These exposed scandals will undoubtedly be investigated by an independent judiciary and will lead to them being brought before a court.
Whoever betrays their country must absolutely be tried as a 'traitor' and treated accordingly.
It is not right to call people patriots who are the lackeys of other countries, who act in accordance with their interests, and who sell out their country; these individuals will definitely be held accountable one day. Knowing this, the government tries to create fear in society and feed off this fear, because it knows there is no other way out.
I believe there will be some major changes in Türkiye very soon, and these changes will profoundly affect the government.
I hope everyone who betrays our country will one day face trial and be held accountable before justice.