Fréderike Geerdink

A Dutch journalist, who was deported by Turkey, was fired from her newspaper on Jan. 18.

'The Boys are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey' by Frederike Geerdink (Gomidas Institute, $22, 196 pages)

'The Boys are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey' by Frederike Geerdink (Gomidas Institute, $22, 196 pages)

A Dutch journalist who was deported from Turkey after being detained during clashes between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces vowed on Sept.10 to return to the restive region "as soon as possible".

A Dutch journalist who was detained in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari's Yüksekova district on Sept. 5 on grounds of "helping an armed terrorist organization," has been deported, Reuters reported on Sept.9.

A Dutch journalist who was detained in Turkey?s southeastern province of Hakkari?s Yüksekova district on Sept. 5 on grounds of ?helping an armed terrorist organization,? has been released and was set to be deported, Do?an News Agency reported on Sept. 9.

A Dutch journalist based in southeastern Diyarbak?r province was detained Sept. 6 by the police for the second time, Netherland official news agency ANP has reported.

Frederike Geerdink was detained at around 2 a.m., as she was following the Democratic Peoples' Party's (HDP) program.

A Dutch journalist tried on a charge of disseminating "terrorist propaganda" was acquitted by a Turkish court on April 13.

Frederike Geerdink's brief detention in January prompted an outcry from rights groups and a protest by the Dutch foreign minister, whilst deepening fears about the erosion of press freedom under President Tayyip Erdo?an.

A Turkish prosecutor on April 8 requested the acquittal of a Dutch journalist specialising in Kurdish issues who was accused of "terrorist propaganda" for the oulawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
 
Frederike Geerdink, who is based in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir, had been briefly detained in January after authorities raided her home.
 

The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed concern over reports that Diyarbak?r-based Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink could face up to five years in prison in Turkey on accusations that she spread terrorist propaganda on social media.