Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan [View all]
Source: The Guardian
A Dutch journalist was arrested early Sunday at her home in Turkey for tweets deemed critical of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to her Twitter account.
“Police at the door. No joke,” wrote Ebru Umar, a well-known atheist and feminist journalist of Turkish origin.
Umar recently wrote a piece critical of Erdoğan for the Dutch daily Metro, extracts of which she then tweeted, leading to her arrest.
“I’m not free, we’re going to the hospital” for a medical examination before being taken to face prosecutors, she said in a second tweet as she left her home in Kusadasi, a resort town in western Turkey.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/24/dutch-journalist-ebru-umar-arrested-in-turkey-for-criticising-erdogan
BTW it's not entirely clear from the Guardian piece (I'll try to find a better article), but Ebru Umar is a DUTCH BORN citizen (of Turkish descent), who wrote a piece critical of Erdogan in a DUTCH newspaper, who was arrested in Turkey whilst on VACATION!
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