Turkey detained on Friday the head of the board of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, which saw nine of its staff arrested last week, the newspaper said.
Turkish police detained the editor and senior staff of a leading opposition newspaper on Monday over its alleged support for a failed coup in July, in a move described by a top EU politician as the crossing of a red line against freedom of expression.
Two Turkish journalists charged in a hugely controversial case with revealing state secrets and held in jail for the last three months were released after Turkey's constitutional court ruled their rights had been violated.
