# Claim 538

Turkey's stated basis for the deportation.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

- Statement: Turkey's stated basis for the deportation.
- Field: stated_justification
- Value: Officials cite alleged Jabhat al-Nusra ties
- About: [incident 2019-turkiye-deports-ans-boersma](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2019-turkiye-deports-ans-boersma)
- Source: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of January 13, 2019. https://cpj.org/2019/01/turkey-crackdown-chronicle-week-of-january-13-2019/
- Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
- Method: outlet report
- Checked: 2026-09-22
- Confidence: medium
- Status: current
- Source date: 2019-01-17

## Quotation from the source

> The Netherlands told Turkey that the reporter, who was deported today, had links to Jabhat al-Nusra.

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