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NETHERLANDS-TURKEY: Commission on Press freedom: “We are following the Dutch journalist case very closely”

26 April 2016

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"Almost two days after the Turkish State arrested Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist of Turkish decent, as she tweeted a very critical piece written for Dutch Metro daily, the European Commission answered to reporters in Brussels that kept pounding the Commission spokespersons for answers.

“More generally speaking, the EU has very clearly said that Turkey as a country must respect democratic standards which include freedom of press and that to the highest possible extent.” answered Maja Kocijancic, Foreign and Security Policy Spokesperson...Kocijancic avoided to tell more on the case..."

See the article: Commission on Press freedom: “We are following the Dutch journalist case very closely” (New Europe, link)

And see: Dutch journalist detained in Turkey slams house burglary as ‘intimidation’ (hurriyetdailynews.com, link): "A Dutch journalist of Turkish descent who was briefly detained by Turkish police after tweeting critical remarks about the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said her Amsterdam apartment has been broken into, denouncing what she described as “intimidation.”

“So there was a burglary in my Amsterdam home. I m impressed. intimidated. o wait... I M NOT,” Ebru Umar wrote on her Twitter account in English. In another Tweet, she suggested the break-in was “no coincidence.”

Police detained Umar on April 23 in the touristic resort town of Kusadasi in the Aegean province of Aydin, after she tweeted an extract from a recent piece she wrote for Dutch daily Metro, critical of Erdogan. Umar said she was hauled out of bed for the arrest." [emphasis added]

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