The Ankara government is set to deport a Dutch journalist based in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast days after she was taken into custody.

Ramazan Ay, the journalist’s lawyer, said on Thursday that Frederike Geerdink had been transferred to a detention facility for foreigners, where she will await deportation. 

“We’ve been informed of an administrative decision to deport her. We don’t have any details on the reasons for the decision,” media outlets quoted the lawyer as saying, adding, “She’s now in a detention center for foreign citizens in Yuksekova. We're going to appeal this decision.”

Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency, citing a security source, has also confirmed the report.

Sources say the decision to deport the journalist had been taken by the governor of Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari region.

Geerdink was detained last weekend while traveling with a delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari. The arrest was made during clashes between Kurdish fighters and the Turkish security forces.

In April earlier this year, Geerdink was put on trial on charges of spreading “terrorist propaganda” for militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but was then acquitted.

She has been based in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir since 2012, and specializes in writing about the Kurdish population. Her articles have also been published in Dutch and English-language media.

Also on August 27, two British journalists and their Iraqi translator were detained in Diyarbakir while filming clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants. Turkey later released the British reporters working for the US-based media outlet Vice News.

Although the reporters were released, the translator will reportedly remain in custody pending investigation.

The developments come as violence has flared up in Turkey after Ankara started airstrikes against the positions of the PKK militants in southern Turkey and northern Iraq in July.