Excerpt from "El Pais" v. 02/07/2009
Erasmus grants are very popular among young people: You get to know country and people, and it usually stays while you study enough time to enjoy the cultural life of their city. Many places are Erasmus students to become part of the cityscape. There are Erasmus like disk in all European countries - but also in Turkey. They are from the European Commission. ie of European taxpayers' money, and to promote the integration, mutual understanding, etc. are used.
In the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep University, there is also an international Erasmus program .
The Kurdish region is part of the settlement area and is close to Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Adriana Espinosa is a 24 year old student at the University of Seville, Spain. She wants to be a journalist abroad and received an Erasmus scholarship to Southern Turkey. On 15 September 2008, she arrives in Gaziantep. She tries, she says, is to quickly integrate into the city and a student flat share with two Turkish women (of Kurdish origin as it turns out), with which it is made known about a professor. They became friends, and on one occasion she accompanied her colleagues to a meeting of legal Kurdish party DTP. Adriana compared to EL PAIS: "I did not feel that it was an illegal assembly. and the police, who was watching us, told us nothing, so I'm gone completely quiet, with material for a work for the university. "
A few days later, Adriana makes with other students on an excursion to nearby Syria. Returned to her room in Gaziantep, she finds her clothes scattered on the floor, open the cabinets, your laptop is gone. The Turkish police had been in their absence the house. Her two apartment mates were equally taken in for questioning and charged with supporting the illegal Kurdish PKK was, with another 17 zuammen Kurds. Adriana flees in panic into the home of a Spanish fellow student. (more ...)
