Excerpt from "El Pais" v. 2.7.2009
Erasmus grants are very popular among young people: you know the country and its people, and it is usually in addition to studying plenty of time to enjoy the cultural life of each city. Many places have become a part of the cityscape Erasmus students. There are Erasmus Pogramme in all European countries - but also in Turkey. They are used by the European Commission. ie, funded by European taxpayers' money and are so used to integration, mutual discovery.
In the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep University, there is also an international Erasmus program .
The region is part of the Kurdish settlement area and is close to Syria, Iraq and Iran.
Adriana Espinosa is a 24 year old student of the Spanish University of Seville. She wants to be a journalist abroad and received an Erasmus scholarship to Southern Turkey. On 15 September 2008 she arrives in Gaziantep. It is working so she tells to integrate quickly into the city and shares an apartment with two students Turkish women (Kurdish origin, as it turns out) that it is made known by a professor. They became friends, and on one occasion she accompanied her colleagues at a meeting of the legal Kurdish party DTP. Adriana to EL PAIS: "I did not feel that it was an illegal assembly. and the police who watched us, told us nothing, so I am completely calm left, with material for a work for the university. "
A few days later makes Adriana with other students visit nearby Syria. Back in her room in Gaziantep, she finds her clothes scattered on the floor, cabinets open her laptop is gone. The Turkish police had been in her absence the apartment. Her two apartment comrades were immediately taken in for questioning and charged with supporting the illegal Kurdish PKK, zuammen 17 other Kurds. Adriana flees in panic into the home of a Spanish fellow student. (more ...)
