Now that I am a person who is born and raised - and lives in Europe, I can tell you that media in my country has always only served government interest. There are no media against the established government.
It's true that today in Turkey we have less media constantly demonizing the government compared to 2 years ago. I hope this number will further decrease, since demonizing a government deliberately should be totally illegal on public TV stations. Criticism is always welcome.
I always appreciated constructive criticism. In some media channels like Habertürk and CNN (Ahmet Hakan) you do have government critical perspectives being raised. And I appreciate that.
About the pilots, it's better to have less treason and less pilots than more treason and more pilots. It is well documented that alot of F-16 firepower were wasted on mountains and deserts where we thought they were roasting terrorist rats.
Turkey in its whole is going through hardships due to our properly screw€d neighbors and FETÖ's deliberately demonization of the government in the domestic scale (up until some months ago) as well as in the international media. And when there were so much treason going on, of course the state must take extraordinary decisions in these extraordinary conditions. The state must protect its sovereignity, and that cannot be done when you subsequently have traitor news whose only serving one purpose -> bringing down Erdogan.
I can promise you if any other European country (or civilized country) were going through similar events likeTurkey, they would be much harsher.
