Listening Post: Turkey: From Failed Coup to Media Crackdown

Media Crackdown in Turkey: 'The Only Solution to...This Crisis Is a Peace Policy'

Alp Altinors, HDP deputy chairman, discuss with RT ongoing media crackdown in Turkey.

Turkish authorities ordered the closure of more than 130 media outlets on Wednesday in a crackdown following July 16 failed coup: 3 news agencies, 23 radio stations, 16 TV channels, 45 newspapers, 15 magazines, and 29 publishers and distributors .

Some 1,600 military personnel were also sacked in the Turkish government’s latest move.

RT Talks to Both Sides of Turkish Media for Reaction to Crackdown

Only a few independent voices are brave enough to speak out against the alleged wrong-doings of the Turkish government.

Turks Say Erdogan Won’t Go Despite Promise, Media Crackdown to Resume

RT reached out to nearly 40 Turkish media outlets asking for comment on the Russian evidence of Ankara's oil dealings with Islamic State. We've yet to receive a response from any of them. The Russian revelations come amid accusations of a crackdown on any media hostile to the Turkish government. RT's Harry Fear has more on the reaction to the oil trade allegations that are coming from inside Turkey.