Among the finest of these was Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian editor who was murdered in 2007.
Mr Sener dug into alleged police complicity in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish newspaper publisher.
Last week, Hrant Dink, a journalist of Armenian-Turkish descent, was given a six-month suspended sentence for insulting Turkish nationality.
Hrant Dink himself had been tried and convicted of insulting Turkishness in another article on the Armenian issue before he was killed.
Hrant Dink was found guilty in October 2005 of insulting Turkish identity after he wrote an article which addressed the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians nine decades ago.
Mr Sener is best known for a book that documents the complicity of the police in the 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin.
He believes the case is connected to the recent arrests of generals, academics and journalists linked to a string of murders, including that of an ethnic-Armenian editor, Hrant Dink.
After the Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink was gunned down on an Istanbul street in 2007, Birand told me he was now living with protection from a body guard.
One of the loudest critics of the French law, which first came before parliament in 2006, was Hrant Dink, an Armenian newspaper owner who was murdered in Istanbul by an ultranationalist youth in 2007.
The world's conscience was stirred by the deaths of famous journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead at her Moscow apartment bloc in 2006, Hrant Dink, killed in an Istanbul street early the following year, and Lasantha Wickramatunga, the newspaper editor shot dead in Colombo in 2009.
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