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The channel was able to resume streaming, but the servers were attacked again after some time.
"We received a major DDoS attack when the Turkish coup started, second one from when we started streaming RT; this time HTTP headers were infested with some new code which our Firewall did not detect," a representative of the service provider told RT.
The first wave of the attack continued for about two hours while the second one lasted around an hour. The streaming is currently fully restored, while the circumstances of the attack are still being clarified.
The RT website have been targeted by a number of DDoS attacks. In September 2014, the site was subjected to the biggest DDoS attack in its history, which was repelled by its tech specialists nonetheless.
Previous attacks were launched against the site in February 2013, when RT.com ceased functioning for six hours, and in August 2012, when both RT International and RT Spanish websites were attacked. Hacker group AntiLeaks, opposing the Wikileaks project launched by Julian Assange, claimed responsibility for that attack.
A lot of Turkish TV channels were taken off from Turksat, the turkish satellite broadcast. I tried the internet for the same channels and still offline. At Turksat building they killed one guard who opposed their entry. Only about 4 am one of the TV channels started broadcasting again, the Ulusal Kanal and there Doğu Perinçek, the leader of the Patriot Party said that the coup attempt is US backed and executed by Gulenist soldiers and not from the Turkish Army. They bombed the parliament building four times but luckily the ministers went down to the shelter. The head of the army was arrested by them while he was attending a wedding and they wanted him to sign their statement but he refused.