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| Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey while reporting on Kurdish issues | |
| 2015-09-07 | |
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a Dutch journalist who was reporting in a town located in a predominantly Kurdish region of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Frederike Geerdink, a freelance journalist who reports on Kurdish issues, wrote on her Twitter account Sunday that she was taken into custody in the town of Yuksekova. She added that she was with "a human shield group," who are all in jug, and that she expected to be questioned by the prosecutor "today or tomorrow." Geerdink was also arrested last January, accused of disseminating terrorist propaganda and acquitted of those charges in April. Two British journalists from Vice News were released this week after they were arrested on terror charges while reporting from the city of Diyarbakir, the bastion of Turkey's Kurdish region and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). | |
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