The Facebook account of Dutch PvdA MP Keklik Yücel ‘suddenly disappeared’ this morning, after she had written a piece criticising ‘the long arm of [Turkish president] Erdogan’, reports the Volkskrant.

The PvdA labour party has posted a message on its own Facebook page, including Yücel’s whole post, and saying: ‘We find it unacceptable that a voice of the people who writes a candid story about her motives and ideas should have her profile simply taken offline. We have told Facebook this, asking it to reactivate her profile immediately. To quote Keklik: we must never let our freedom of speech come under pressure.’

In the past weeks, Yücel has taken up the cause of Dutch-Turkish columnist Ebru Umar, who has been under house arrest in Turkey for a fortnight for ‘insulting’ tweets about president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Yücel wrote on Facebook that many Dutch people of Turkish origin did not welcome this support.

She spread her message on Twitter this morning, with the hashtag #FreeEbru, and a few hours later her entire profile disappeared. The message by Yücel also said that she believes a declaration against her has been made by the Turkish authorities.

The Volkskrant reports that Yücel is on holiday in Turkey, where she has spoken with Umar, but was unavailable for comment. Yesterday, she told RTV Oost that she would not be intimidated by threats it had found on social media.

According to other media reports, people could have had her page suspended by complaining to Facebook, which is investigating.

Een bezoekje gebracht aan @umarebru voor morele steun. Wat een sterke vrouw! Was erg gezellig! #freeebru https://t.co/gGDRxaHlnC

— Keklik Yucel (@keklikyucel) May 7, 2016