02 February, 17:52
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, FEBRUARY 2 - A lawsuit has been opened against Frederike Geerdink, a Diyarbakir-based Dutch journalist, on charges of making propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), with the prosecutor demanding between one and five years in prison as Anadolu Agency reports.
Geerdink was briefly detained on January 6 as a part of an operation launched by the Diyarbakir Prosecutor's Office after three different complaints were made to the Ankara police. The 6th High Criminal Court has accepted an indictment in which the prosecutor's office said it was determined that the journalist made PKK propaganda by sharing the organization's flags and member's activities on social media. In her testimony, Geerdink pled not guilty and refused that she shared posts either praising the PKK or against the state, the indictment also said.
Geerdink's detention came hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had declared at a meeting of ambassadors in Ankara that "there is no freer press, in Europe or elsewhere in the world, than in Turkey." Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders was also attending the meeting when the journalist was detained. While Koenders raised his concerns during his meetings with Turkish colleagues, including Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, on January 6, the Turkish side defended the impartiality of the ongoing judicial process.
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