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"Why exactly hadn't I felt at home in the Netherlands for years? Why couldn't I fit in?" Froukje Santing didn't recognise the Netherlands anymore after 17 years abroad as a correspondent in Turkey. She was shocked at people's attitude towards immigrants and Muslims. In the book, Dwars op de Tijdgeest (At Odds with the Times), she provides an answer to her questions.
After working for years as a correspondent in Turkey - including for Radio Netherlands Worldwide - and after a short-lived marriage to a Turkish man, Santing returned to the Netherlands in 1999. She began work as a journalist but felt alienated. In her book, she describes the first period back home as "solitary years of fretting". Her feeling of alienation was sometimes to do with small things.