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Dutch columnist of Turkish descent (born 1970)
Ebru Umar
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Born
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1970-05-20
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20 May 1970
(age 54)
The Hague
,
Netherlands
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Nationality
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Ebru Umar
(
Dutch pronunciation:
[?e:bru
?um?r]
;
Turkish pronunciation:
[eb?uː
um?a?]
; born 20 May 1970) is a Dutch columnist of Turkish descent. Under the influence of
Theo van Gogh
, she gave up a career in management and became a columnist, first for van Gogh's website and, after he was assassinated, as his successor as a regular columnist of
Metro
.
[1]
She writes for a number of Dutch magazines and has published four books, often on the topics of feminism and criticism of Islam.
Biography
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Umar is the child of Turkish parents who came to the Netherlands in 1970. Her father is a retired
anatomic pathologist
, her mother an
ophthalmologist
.
[2]
She grew up in
Rotterdam
and attended the
Gymnasium Erasmianum
.
[3]
After studying management and working for a while as a manager, she began writing, under the influence of
Theo van Gogh
,
[2]
and wrote columns for his website (van Gogh was her "friend and mentor"),
[4]
[5]
and soon began writing for a number of other Dutch newspapers. In 2005 she took over van Gogh's column in
Metro
.
[6]
Umar is also the author of four books, and writes a weekly column for the Dutch women's weekly magazine
Libelle
[3]
(in addition to doing interviews
[7]
and panel discussions
[8]
for the magazine) and for the Dutch feminist magazine
Opzij
.
[9]
Umar, an atheist, has a reputation for outspokenness, a characteristic her parents say she has had from an early age.
[2]
In 2006 she was beaten outside her apartment in Amsterdam by two attackers.
[10]
Arrest in Turkey
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On April 23, 2016, Umar was arrested in her holiday apartment in the Turkish town of
Ku?adası
, which she has said was for posting tweets that were critical of Turkish president
Erdo?an
.
[11]
[12]
[13]
She was then released but not allowed to leave Turkey.
[14]
On April 24, 2016, her home in Amsterdam was burglarized and vandalized.
Bibliography
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- Burka & Blahniks
(2004)
[15]
- Vier over 8
(2005)
- Geen talent voor de liefde
(2005), diary-style reminiscences
[16]
- Turkse verleidingen
(2008), a collection of travel stories set in Turkey
[9]
References
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"Ebru Umar: VVD walgelijke huichelachtige partij, Verdonk wist in 2004 van echte naam Hirsi Ali"
.
Nederlands Juridisch Dagblad
(in Dutch). 18 May 2006
. Retrieved
30 August
2012
.
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a
b
c
Maas, Cornald (9 February 2008).
"
'Het heeft geen zin tegen Ebru te zeggen dat ze haar mond moet houden'
"
.
de Volkskrant
(in Dutch)
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
a
b
Brandt Corstius, Aaf (8 October 2009).
"Een soort Fame-meets-Krachtwijk"
.
NRC Handelsblad
(in Dutch). Archived from
the original
on 7 September 2013
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
Scroggins, Deborah (2012).
Wanted women: faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
. New York: Harper. p. 285.
ISBN
9780062097958
.
- ^
Jong, Perro de (3 November 2004).
"Dutch fear loss of tolerance"
.
BBC News
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
"Ebru Umar opvolger Theo van Gogh"
.
Algemeen Dagblad
(in Dutch). 13 October 2005.
- ^
Tassier, Manu (19 May 2009).
"
'EUROPA mag geen moeial zijn'
"
.
De Standaard
(in Dutch)
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
Boevink, Wim (2 March 2002).
"Even op de gang staan"
.
Trouw
(in Dutch)
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
a
b
"
'Ik blijf!': Turkse schrijfsters roeren zich"
.
Zuid-Kennemerland Dichtbij
(in Dutch). 23 March 2012
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
Reijn, Gerard (25 April 2006).
"
'Twee kerels die een vrouw slaan, wat een moed'
"
.
de Volkskrant
(in Dutch)
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
- ^
"Columniste Ebru Umar opgepakt in Turkije"
(in Dutch). nos.nl. 23 April 2016.
- ^
"Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdo?an"
.
The Guardian
.
Agence France-Presse
. 24 April 2016
. Retrieved
24 April
2016
.
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"Dutch journalist Ebru Umar arrested in Turkey"
.
The Independent
. 24 April 2016
. Retrieved
24 April
2016
.
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"Dutch journalist Ebru Umar 'free but forbidden to leave' Turkey after criticising Erdogan"
.
AFP/Reuters
. ABC. 25 April 2016
. Retrieved
25 April
2016
.
- ^
Moors, Annelies (2012).
"The Affective Power of the Face Veil: Between Disgust and Fascination"
.
Things: religions and the question of materiality
(in Dutch). New York: Fordham UP. p. 291.
ISBN
9780823239450
.
- ^
Brink, Jan Auke (28 February 2006).
"Rev. of Ebru Umar,
Geen talent voor de liefde
"
.
8Weekly
(in Dutch)
. Retrieved
31 August
2012
.
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