In a new update, the Committee to Protect Journalists, stated that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has imprisoned at least 120 media folks in the wake of the July coup attempt, on top of his purges of the military and judiciary, as well as the universities, police forces and classrooms. In a recent article, New York Post demonstrated a chronological path where freedom of expression has been oppressed in Turkey. The paper said that since he first took over as premier in 2003, Erdogan has launched more than 2,000 prosecutions of people who've offended him — from students playing darts with his photo as the board to a guy behind a social-media post comparing Erdogan to J.R.R. Tolkien's "small, slimy creature" Gollum. For years, Erdogan has routinely squelched speech by shutting down social media and the Internet when he has deemed it appropriate. And Twitter's Transparency Report shows that Turkey's also No. 1 when it comes to demands for the removal of "offensive" posts, accounting for 15,000 of the 20,000 accounts fingered this year.