The Turkish presidency said today that the Dutch authorities have deported a Dutch journalist because of its association with a terrorist organization, denying any link to this decision by its press work in Turkey.
The head of the Turkish presidential communications center, Fakhruddin Allton, said the Ankara authorities had received information from the Dutch police for a long time. The journalist Anas Bursama, 31, was associated with a terrorist organization that the Turkish official did not mention.
Alton said the Dutch authorities had asked for information about the movements of the journalist who worked for the Dutch financial newspaper Financiale Dagbla, the country's largest financial journalist.
"I suddenly found yourself sitting on a plane back to the Netherlands," she said. "They declared me an undesirable person in Turkey," she said. .
The editor-in-chief of the Dutch newspaper, Jan Bonaire, described Porsma's deportation as "a gross violation of the freedom of the press."