Television is the most effective way to manipulate people in Turkey because turkish people have a social culture that is pretty much based on home. What people have been doing in order to entertain themselves was mostly home visits to their friends and relatives but with the big city life it just get harder to do that. So T.V was there waiting for people as the easiest way of entertainment and now Turkey probably is one of the countries in the world that has most percentage of T.V addicts. In 1990’s there were a lot of serious information based shows on T.V but after 2000’s televole culture become dominant on turkish televisions. Well, the reason behind this was simple people were so addicted to television and they were simply watching whatever is on and as long as they see some familiar faces(some celebrities they like as presenters) they were happy. So why they would bother theirselves to make serious and informative programs when they can earn money easier and why would they make the people informed about politics and other important stuff when tv is the most efficient way to reach lower class people so they can easily manipulate them to get what they want. Well, they did not and when you turn on the tv today it is all stupid, meaningless (un)reality shows and on the news it is not much different. When they have to get in politics it is simply what their owner wants is on. For example ATV is always with the current goverment and Kanal D always blaming them..  This is also the reason why it is a priority for every new goverment to change the director of TRT. Has anyone show TRT researching something against the goverment? or any kind of other thing that may result against the goverment? it is simply impossible