Turkish daily newspaper editor-in-chief detained in Istanbul
Oguz Guven tweeted early Friday morning that he has been taken into custody.
An police official said an arrest warrant had been issued for Guven after Cumhuriyet posted an article online about the death of Mustafa Alper, the chief prosecutor of Denizli province in southwest Turkey, who died in a car crash on Wednesday, according to the Turkish Anadolu Agency.
The BBC describes the paper as a "nationalist daily" that was established in 1924.
Guven became editor after his predecessor Murat Sabuncu was arrested in November 2016 along with eight other colleagues for allegedly committing crimes on behalf of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Reporters Without Borders recognized Cumhuriyet in 2015 for its reporting, awarding it the TV5 Monde Prize.
"In the Media Category to the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, the target of frequent persecution by the Turkish regime because of its reporting," the press freedom organization wrote in a statement.
The independent journalist platform P24, which tracks press freedoms in Turkey, listed 165 journalists being detained in Turkey as of Wednesday.
Last month, thirteen writers and journalists from Ergenekon were acquitted of all charges in an investigation that began in 2011, also known as "The OdaTV investigation," according to P24.
Turkey has indicated that the jailed people who call themselves journalists "support terrorism."
"There is not a single journalist who is under custody in Turkey for writing stories. If there is one, I would like to know who he/she is," Anadolu Agency reported Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying in early February. "Those who revealed themselves as journalists have either supported terrorism or terrorist organizations.”