ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A newspaper close to an Islamic cleric foe of Tayyip Erdogan said its editor had been remanded in custody ahead of trial on charges of insulting the Turkish president, fuelling fears of a media clampdown ahead of a Nov. 1 election.
The English-language Today's Zaman chief editor Bulent Kenes was detained at its Istanbul offices on Friday, Dogan news agency said, and sent to Metris jail in Istanbul by court order.
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