Turkey's media purge after the failed July 2016 coup d'état

A media purge occurred in Turkey after a failed coup d'état on July 15, 2016 and resulted in the shutdown of at least 131 media outlets and the arrest of 117 journalists – at least 35 of whom have been indicted for "membership in a terror group". In the wake of the attempted putsch, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government closed down media companies linked to exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen and his Hizmet Movement.

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