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> I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year.

Why would you?

> Out of that population which could fill a decent-sized country, how many people have been treated so unfairly as the one in this article? How do those stats compare with other countries, and the inevitable abuses that occur in any vast bureaucracy?

Most people have an opinion about the US. They might have shared it on social media.

For comparison, the government of Turkey might care if you have insulted Erdoğan on social media (I don’t know; they might). But chances are you want to travel to Turkey while not having strong enough opinions to have flamed Erdoğan on social media. People care more about what they can see in Turkey; foreigners objectively spend more time on US political news than they spend thinking about the US national parks.



I'm quite sure that turkish police doesn't have time to waste checking the social accounts of people.


ROTFL.

I'm quite sure that's their main job, finding out who are the adversaries of the regime.


Do you have any sources of them actually doing it or is it just a feeling?


Türkiye was just a hypothetical example. “Might”




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