How the Dutch FM learned about the arrest of the Dutch journalist

I was at a lunch with the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Bert Koenders, along with two colleagues, at the residence of the Dutch Ambassador to Turkey, Ron Keller, when news broke about the detention of Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink in Diyarbak?r. 

Ahmed Dadou, the spokesperson of Minister Koenders, rushed into the dining room in a very anxious way to inform the minister, the ambassador, and the guests about the detention of Geerdink. ?Terrorism police just searched my house, team of 8 guys. They take me to the station now. Charge: ?propaganda for terrorist organization?,? read the tweet Geerdink posted at 1.33 p.m., leaving all of us in the room shocked.
 
Geerdink is a Dutch journalist living in Diyarbak?r ? she argues that she is the only foreign journalist based in the southeastern Anatolian town - and is known for her numerous pieces on the Kurdish question. Apart from compiling stories for various agencies and media outlets in the Netherlands, she is also running a blog under the title ?Kurdish Matters.?
 
The astonishment could easily be read on Minister Koenders? face, as he got the news precisely as the roundtable discussion was focused on the state of freedom of expression in Turkey and the importance of a free media for the democratic development of countries. ?FM #Koenders: shocked by arrest of @fgeerdink. Will personally discuss this here in Ankara with my Turkish colleague Cavusoglu,? tweeted the Dutch Foreign Ministry in an immediate reaction on Dec. 6.
 
The lunch with Minister Koenders was an informal one and held in a brainstorming format. But it should not go unnoticed that the detention of Geerdink is a development that speaks for itself in regards to the state of free media in Turkey, as it took place...