The apartment in Amsterdam of Dutch journalist of Turkish Ebru Umar, detained several hours by police in Turkey during the weekend, was burglarized, she has on several Dutch media, calling the flight “d pure intimidation. “
“My neighbor called me this morning to tell me that my apartment was burglarized with much violence,” she told Dutch news agency ANP. She described the robbery as “pure intimidation and provocation.”
Metro daily, with whom she is working, she added, “the door was forced, my old computer was taken away.” The Amsterdam police were not immediately available to confirm the burglary.
Ebru Umar, known feminist and atheist, was arrested for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Saturday to Sunday night at her home in Kusadasi, a small resort in western Turkey.
Ms Umar, aged 45, was then released, but she confirmed on her Twitter account that she could not leave the country, and should represent the police in a few days.
Ebru Umar had recently written a very critical review of Turkey’s strong man in the Dutch newspaper Metro. In this article, it cited in particular in support of its accusations against Erdogan, an email sent by the Turkish Consulate General in Rotterdam to Turks living in this region asking them to report any insult expressed on social networks to against the head of the Turkish state.
This email was generated controversy. The consulate had subsequently spoken of a “misunderstanding”. The trial for insult to Erdogan have multiplied since his election to the State of the head in August 2014, a sign, according to critics, an authoritarian drift.
Nearly 2,000 legal proceedings have been launched in Turkey for both artists and journalists as individuals. Sanctions imposed for this offense is limited in most cases to prison sentences, but a woman was sentenced Jan. 20 to eleven months in prison for an obscene gesture against Erdogan during a demonstration on March 2014.
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