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2019-01-18 The Grand Turk
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Dutch journalist deported from Turkey over alleged terror links
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 [PULSE.NG] A Dutch journalist based in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
was deported on Thursday a day after she was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
on suspicion of links to a jihadist group in Syria, Ottoman Turkish officials said.
The officials insisted Ans Boersma's deportation was not related to her journalistic activity but that Ankara had received a tip-off from the Dutch police that she had links to Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
, a former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
Boersma, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul who has contributed articles to the financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, also said she had been expelled.
"I got arrested yesterday (Wednesday), got deported this morning. Flying out now," she said in a messaging group for foreign journalists in Turkey.
Fahrettin Altun, communications director at the Ottoman Turkish presidency, confirmed her expulsion but said it was "in no way related to her journalistic activities during her stay in Turkey."
"The Ottoman Turkish authorities have recently received intelligence from the Dutch police that Ms Boersma had links to a designated terrorist organization and a request for information about her movements in and out of Turkey," he said.
'ACTED ON INTELLIGENCE
Writing on Twitter, Altun said she was suspected of links to Jabhat al-Nusra operating in Syria.
"The Netherlands told Turkey that the news hound, who was deported today (Thursday), had links to Jabhat al-Nusra," he wrote.
"We acted on intelligence from the Netherlands and took a precautionary measure."
He said it was up to Dutch authorities to explain why they arrived at that conclusion and refused to speculate on the credibility of their intelligence.
A number of groups including the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
have carried out a spate of attacks in Turkey in recent years.
"Due to the seriousness of the threat, we work closely with our friends and allies, including the Netherlands, and rely on their insights to identify and neutralise threats against Ottoman Turkish and European security," Altun said.
Until now, the Ottoman Turkish authorities, with help from their international partners, have blacklisted tens of thousands of individuals with links to terrorist organizations as part of an ongoing effort to combat extremism, he added.
Another Ottoman Turkish official, who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP the authorities would not have issued a press card if they had had "national security concerns" about the news hound.
The official said Boersma's press credentials were valid until January 31, 2019.
Human rights defenders have raised concerns over a clampdown on freedom of expression in Turkey under President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
, with dozens of journalists and civil society activists put behind bars.
Turkey is ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders 2018 World Press Freedom Index.
In December, a Ottoman Turkish court ordered the release from jail of an Austrian student and journalist charged with being a member of a terror group.
Max Zirngast, who writes for the far-left German-language magazine Re:volt, had been formally arrested by an Ankara court in September.
Boersma, who worked for respected newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad and other news outlets in Istanbul, was detained by authorities on Wednesday while submitting documents at an immigration office to extend her Ottoman Turkish residence permit.
The newspaper said in a statement that Boersma believes her deportation may be linked to a past relationship she had with a Syrian man suspected in the Netherlands of being a former member of a jihadist group.
"Ans herself considers it possible her deportation is related to the fact that until the summer of 2015 she had a relationship with a Syrian who was locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in the Netherlands last autumn for former membership of the Syrian terror network Jabhat al-Nusra," the newspaper statement said.
Since a 2016 coup attempt, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
has enjugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
thousands of people including journalists, academics and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists for alleged ties to the coup or for terror-related charges. The Ottoman Turkish Journalists’ Syndicate says 141 journalists are currently behind bars, leading other media groups to describe Turkey as "the world’s top jailer of journalists."
In a report released Thursday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said: "Prolonged and arbitrary jailing of critics on bogus terrorism charges has become the norm in Turkey." 
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