Turkey arrests 13 journalists in ongoing wave of crackdowns following the coup attempt in July.

Turkey has arrested 13 journalists in an ongoing wave of government crackdowns following a coup attempt in July.

Early Monday morning, Turkish police detained Murat Sabuncu, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhurriyet, along with a dozen other reporters in a raid, according to official news agency Anadolu. 

Cumhuriyet, a nearly century-old secular opposition newspaper, has remained critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with his ruling AKP party.

Last year the paper's ex-editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, was taken into custody over a story published about Turkish intelligence service allegedly sending weapons to Syrian opposition.

According to Anadolu, Turkish police also searched the houses of two other journalists.

Turkish police officers in the offices of IMC TV station during a raid on October 4, 2016 in Istanbul.

Earlier this month, another raid on Istanbul-based IMC TV, an opposition-affiliated, pro-Kurdish channel, came as the station was reporting on the government's closure of another television channel. Turkish authorities cut IMC's transmission in the middle of the broadcast.