Media targeted in Turkey's post-coup crackdown Turkish media played a crucial role in averting the coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yet dozens of journalists are now being targeted in the sweeping crackdown after the failed putsch, a development with the head of the country's journalists' association calls "a sad and unacceptable situation". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of Turgay Olcayto, President of Turkish Journalists' Association