a daily hit count of 2 million views. By August 2016, Cenk Uygur reported that number of paid subscribers had increased to more than 23,000. By October 2016, the total number of views for the TYT Network's YouTube channel had surpassed 3 billion. On April 20, 2013, The Young Turks announced that its YouTube channel had received over 1 billion video views. Controversies Name controversy The show's name Young Turks has been criticized and called for change due to the original Young Turks political movement in the Ottoman Empire being responsible for committing the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian genocide, and the Greek genocide. Alex Galitsky, who works for the Armenian National Committee of America, stated "If a group decided to call themselves ‘the Young Nazis’, and pitched themselves as a disruptor or anti-establishment news outlet, people would be rightly outraged". In 1991, Cenk Uygur wrote an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania, in which he promoted Armenian genocide denial. In 2016 Cenk Uygur posted a statement on TYT's website in which he rescinded his Armenian Genocide denial statements, arguing: "My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about." In response to the criticism he has explained that the name of the show was chosen because it is a popular colloquialism traditionally meaning a young radical who fights the status quo. Dismissal of Jordan Chariton In November 2017, TYT fired field reporter Jordan Chariton over sexual assault allegations made against him by The Huffington Post. Chariton denied the accusations, considered legal actions and later he settled the matter with TYT. Unionization of TYT staff In late February 2020, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) sought to unionize the production and post-production staff at TYT. Uygur urged his employees not to, as he stated TYT is a small media organization and the move would endanger its financial viability, however the network supported its workers holding a secret ballot to unionize. Employees expressed support for an open ballot and a bargaining process followed. On 9 April 2020, employees voted 6 against and 9 in favor to have their own union and unionize