I will take first crack, Mr. Anderson. The traditional media, as we know, is completely decimated in Turkey. On the print side, it is almost 100%. There maybe a few small dailies left on the left side. They have very limited reach to the audience in Turkey. Pretty much by and large it is controlled by Erdogan or his people directly.
On the broadcast side, it is the same situation, maybe much worse than the print side because most of the Turkish people get their news from the TV networks rather than reading the newspapers. That's why Erdogan paid specific attention to consolidating his power base on the TV network initially. That's why the only outlet left for many to get their information is the Internet, social media.
However, as I said in my introductory remarks, the government is also cracking down. Because it owns the backbone systems, it can easily suffocate the lines. We saw it played out during the election, actually, that we still had some independent and critical media in Turkey while I was still there.
If you set up a critical news website, it gets blocked automatically by the Turkish government. You may set it up in the States, Canada, or Sweden, but you cannot reach the audience in Turkey unless they use VPN to bypass the systems.
The government is using the criminal justice system to level charges against so many, not just journalists by the way but average citizens who may dare to criticize the government on any issue. They may get rounded up and spend some time in detention. In some cases, they may get formally arrested.
As of the end of 2016, the numbers we have are that more than 10,000 people face defamation charges for insulting the Turkish president or other senior officials. In some cases, it even extends to insulting the first lady and other members of Erdogan's family, who are not protected by the law at all. We see the government is inventing new laws that have no basis in the books at all, so it's quite arbitrary.