About me

After almost 15 years of journalism in the Netherlands, at the end of 2006 I moved my office to Turkey. The first story I made in Turkey, in the fall of 2004, was about different generations of Turkish women in a central-Anatolian town.

Since living and working in the country, I’ve written for a wide range of media in the Netherlands. Among the most important are the national Dutch news agency (ANP), several weekly opinion magazines and monthly magazines about human rights and environmental issues, as well as women’s magazines. Besides that, I’m a fixer for TV-stations that come to Turkey and need all their work to be arranged before they actually fly in.

My main fields of interest are women’s lives, human rights, minorities and politics. The articles on this site have all been published in the Netherlands. I translated them for publication on this site. You can read about my journalism work also in this article.

Since September 2010 I study law at Open University in the Netherlands.

I live in Üsküdar, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Yes, the Bosporus view is nice. Contact me on f.geerdink AT gmail.com or call 0538 983 1872.

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