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European students likened to prostitutes
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1.       Trudy
7887 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 06:46 pm

  A group of European students were denied access to Turkish Petroleum Corporation, or TPAO, facilities in the southeastern city of Batman allegedly because the women were wearing clothing that was too revealing, reported the Doğan news agency.

  The 18 students, from Latvia, Lithuania and Romania, are part of the European Union Education and Youth Program´s student exchange project.

  The project´s Batman administrator, Şeyhmus Özbek, said TPAO security personnel likened the students to “natashas” -- a derogatory Turkish slang word for a foreign prostitute -- saying, “They told us ‘What are these natashas doing in your vehicle? We don´t allow natashas in our facilities.´”

  “We just left the facilities without entering,” she said. Özbek said there had been many problems during the week that the European guests were visiting Batman as part of the local high school theater group´s “Ugly Duckling” project.

  

No entry for ‘natashas´

  Özbek said the group arrived as substitutes for Germans, who cancelled their visit after the recent kidnapping of three German tourists on Mount Ağrı by Kurdistan Workers´ Party, or PKK, terrorists. “We have tried every available means to bring our guests here but unfortunately when they do arrive certain obstacles and epithets have saddened us.”

  TPAO security chief Necati Adıyaman said all people entering the facilities were subject to identification control. “The gate personnel might have not understood them. The checkpoint control isn´t just for EU (European Union) guests but for all visitors. We apologize to the delegation if there was any misunderstanding and we are looking into whether anybody called the guests ‘natashas.´”

  

Youths trailed us at the market

  The spokespeople for the Lithuanian university students -- Liga Andersone, Latvian history student Santa Girbuerga and Romanian Idana Chiriac -- said their favorite part of Batman, which they had never visited before, was the historic Hasankeyf ruins.

  Andersone said they always preferred to dress comfortably. “We are not comfortable when we go to the downtown market. We tried wandering outside on our first days, but several youths started trailing us and we were very uncomfortable. Many people are staring at us, which makes us even more uncomfortable.”

  “When the German group didn´t come, we were the substitutes who arrived hoping to get to know Turkey´s East, but we are apprehensive about mixing with the young people,” said Andersone.

  “We haven´t been able to leave our dormitory for fear of being harassed. Whenever we go somewhere, we go as one large group. If only we could wander around comfortably. We want to share our cultures with the people here. Unfortunately we are sometimes misunderstood, which saddens us.”    

 

Source: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr

2.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 06:53 pm

I wonder what they were wearing Great hospitality on the Turkish side´s behalf - you´re ex-USSR, you´re not in a potato bag ergo you´re natasha. Brill article, Trudy!

3.       SuiGeneris
3922 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 07:00 pm

It really hit my nerves when i was reading that news in the newspaper...

 

Its such a shame for us.. especially, what that security guard did... there are big security issues aroud those places, you cant enter as "hello i came to visit you"... there are some procedures...

 

Another thing is their guide must be silly to bring them there instead of having a "sark sofrası"...

4.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 07:21 pm

 

Quoting SuiGeneris

It really hit my nerves when i was reading that news in the newspaper...

 

Its such a shame for us.. especially, what that security guard did... there are big security issues aroud those places, you cant enter as "hello i came to visit you"... there are some procedures...

 

Another thing is their guide must be silly to bring them there instead of having a "sark sofrası"...

 

what would you expect in such a place called Batman? I wouldn`t set my foot there.

5.       SuiGeneris
3922 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 07:26 pm

 

Quoting tamikidakika

what would you expect in such a place called Batman? I wouldn`t set my foot there.

 

 Its your thoughts my friend! There are lots to do in such places... They could go to Diyarbakir... Sanliurfa, Mardin...

6.       sonunda
5004 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 07:32 pm

We received the best hospitality we have ever had in Turkey in Batman! We met a young couple on the bus from Tatvan to Batman and when they found out we hadn´t yet got a place to stay they took us to their parents´ home,fed us and then took us to their home to spend the night.

In the morning Cenk took us to the bus for Hasankeyf and paid the driver in advance.

It´s a modern upcoming place and I have fond memories of it!

7.       armegon
1872 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 07:55 pm

That looks like the mentality of AKP, its known that they nearly put their men into the all positions of government and so as TPAO…

8.       Trudy
7887 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 08:38 pm

I´ve been to Batman, Şanlıurfa and Mardin (not to Diyarbakır, that was then not safe for a woman alone) and dressed very western in jeans and a T-shirt with halflong sleeves, I never noticed anyone who looked at me as if I was a ´Natasha´. On the contrary, people were nice, very welcoming and as curious as everywhere in Turkey (and believe me, that is quite a lot!)...

9.       gencturk
326 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 10:48 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

We received the best hospitality we have ever had in Turkey in Batman! We met a young couple on the bus from Tatvan to Batman and when they found out we hadn´t yet got a place to stay they took us to their parents´ home,fed us and then took us to their home to spend the night.

In the morning Cenk took us to the bus for Hasankeyf and paid the driver in advance.

It´s a modern upcoming place and I have fond memories of it!

 


Thank you sonunda for your story. it is nice to hear something positive {#lang_emotions_wink}

10.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 24 Aug 2008 Sun 12:15 am

Hasankeyf is one of the most photographed attraction. The buildings there are tens of thousands of years ago, could of been the inspiration for the Catalan artist Gaudi! It hurts, though, to see the red brick modern additions built on without any thought of how it blends in with the rest of the surroundings.

Lack of funds and neglect from the Turkish government!

Now though, the Turkish authorities are stepping up their cultural genocide by going ahead with their plans to flood this profoundly beautiful site that is of world cultural significance.

 

http://www.ajans21.com/

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