[5] In the Netherlands, her work has appeared in De Pers, Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP), BNR Newsradio, Elle, Marie Claire, Esta (ceased publication in 2013), Viva, Opzij, Volkskrant Magazine, De Groene Amsterdammer, and Wordt Vervolgd (human rights magazine).

[7][8][9] As a freelance journalist she submits articles to print newspapers and magazines and radio reports for Dutch, Belgian, British, American media groups, such as Het Parool, The Independent, Al-Monitor, Global Post, and the BBC News.

[10] A weekly article of Geerdink appears online at Diken, a Turkish independent news portal.

[5] Geerdink was the author of the blog Kurdish Matters[11] and now hosts a subscription-based newsletter called Expert Kurdistan.

[3] Her second book, "This Fire Never Dies," first released in the Netherlands in 2018, and as an English translation 2021, deals with her time with PKK.

[18] Following that she was charged with distributing terrorist propaganda and supporting the PKK through comments on social media and in her reporting.

Political leaders and press freedom organizations around the world reacted to her arrest, including Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders.

[21] On 6 September 2015, Fréderike Geerdink was arrested again and this time she was charged with crossing into a restricted zone and taking part in a protest while being there.

The other two journalists were British and they were arrested on charges of terrorism for reporting about the Turkish government's conflict with the PKK youth wing and then deported from Turkey as a result.

"We call on the government in Ankara to allow journalists to report freely from the region and to lift the deportation order against Frederike Geerdink.