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The Dutch journalist - who reports on Kurdish affairs - was detained for several hours on Tuesday (Photo: Carmen Alonso Suarez)

Dutch FM condemns arrest of journalist in Turkey

On the day the Dutch foreign minister visited the Turkish capital Ankara, a Dutch journalist was briefly arrested at her home in Diyarbakir, a southeastern city with mainly Kurdish inhabitants.

Frederike Geerdink announced via social media, and later told Dutch Radio 1, on Tuesday (6 January) that nine Turkish police from the anti-terrorism unit searched her house.

The Dutch journalism union, the NVJ, on Wednesday also annou...

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