Fifty-six more on trial in Turkish coup plot case

But as the police round up journalists, human rights activists, artists and academics in a ever-expanding case, some question whether the AK Party is misusing the judiciary, once a bastion of the secularist elite, to punish political opponents.

Many of these accuse the AK Party of seeking revenge for an attempt to ban it in court last year, something it denies.

(Writing by Ibon Villelabeitia; Editing by Richard Balmforth)