As Der Spiegel reported last week, veteran journalists Ahmet Sik from the far-left Radikal newspaper and Nedim Sener from the highbrow Milliyet journal were among those rounded up.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Turkey's cautionary tale

"I was driving my child to school and on the radio I heard the police were making arrests in relation to a conspiracy against the government, I was shocked when they said I was one of those to be arrested, " journalist Nedim Sener tells the BBC, sitting with his wife in his apartment after a long spell in jail.

BBC: Turkey's press continues to feel pressure from the state