Police in Turkey detained a Dutch columnist over a tweet she posted that was deemed ‘critical’ of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. Ebru Umar a well know journalist of Turkish origin, was arrested at her home in Kusadasi, a resort town in western Turkey, early on Sunday and brought before a judge. A political storm erupted last week over reports that the Turkish consulate had requested that Turkish organisations in the Netherlands to forward emails and social media posts that insult Erdoğan or Turkey. RT reports: On Saturday, the Turkish police detained her at the resort of Kusadasi and seized her laptop, the newspaper reported. Umar told Metro she was questioned about critical tweets about the Turkish president. Later Sunday, Umar was released, but not allowed to leave the country. “Free but under country arrest,” she said in the first tweet in 15 hours since her arrest. The spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed to RT that Umar was released by the Turkish authorities: “She is released, but she has to stay in Turkey and report herself on a regular basis to the authorities. So, she is no longer being held in custody, but she is not free to go where [...]