Ten years ago in Turkey, on July 15, 2016, there was an attempted coup. What exactly happened that night remains unclear.

In the final months of 2013, when corruption allegations against some government ministers surfaced, measures to silence independent journalists began in order to prevent the allegations from receiving widespread media coverage.

Indeed, I was one of the first victims of this. In Turkey, which was rapidly evolving into an anti-democratic environment, as an academic who spoke freely and a journalist who wrote what I thought, I was fired from both my job at the university and the newspaper where I was a columnist.