Turkey jails two more journalists over coup plot
By Ibon Villelabeitia, Reuters, March 6, 2011

ANKARA - A court on Sunday charged two more prominent journalists with links to an alleged plot to topple the Turkish government in a case that has raised worries of media freedom in Turkey.

Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, who have written investigative books about Turkey's clandestine "deep state" activities, were detained on Thursday with six other journalists after police raided their homes at dawn. They were jailed pending trial....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/06/us-turkey-plot-idUSTRE7251G920...

Turkish Court Jails 2 Journalists
By SEBNEM ARSU, New York Times, March 6, 2011

ISTANBUL — A Turkish court ordered two journalists jailed on Sunday, pending the outcome of an investigation into accusations that the military plotted to overthrow Turkey’s pro-Islamic government in 2003.

The journalists, Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik, were arrested after testifying for more than 14 hours about what the authorities said was their involvement in an effort to the topple the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Sener and Mr. Sik were known at the time for articles they wrote opposing a coup.

About 100 journalists waited in front of the courthouse as their colleagues were questioned.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/europe/07turkey.html?src=twrhp

Follow up:

Charges Against Journalists Dim the Democratic Glow in Turkey
By DAN BILEFSKY and SEBNEM ARSU, New York Times, January 4/5, 2012

ISTANBUL — A year ago, the journalist Nedim Sener was investigating a murky terrorist network that prosecutors maintain was plotting to overthrow Turkey’s Muslim-inspired government. Today, Mr. Sener stands accused of being part of that plot, jailed in what human rights groups call a political purge of the governing party’s critics.

Mr. Sener, who has spent nearly 20 years exposing government corruption, is among 13 defendants who appeared in state court this week at the imposing Palace of Justice in Istanbul on a variety of charges related to abetting a terrorist organization.

The other defendants include the editors of a staunchly secular Web site critical of the government and Ahmet Sik, a journalist who has written that an Islamic movement associated with Fethullah Gulen, a reclusive cleric living in Pennsylvania, has infiltrated Turkey’s security forces.

At a time when Washington and Europe are praising Turkey as the model of Muslim democracy for the Arab world, Turkish human rights advocates say the crackdown is part of an ominous trend. Most worrying, they say, are fresh signs that the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is repressing freedom of the press through a mixture of intimidation, arrests and financial machinations, including the sale in 2008 of a leading newspaper and a television station to a company linked to the prime minister’s son-in-law [....]