As in the case of Kata Garzón, similar situations have occurred to Colombian dancers and young women, many of whom were “led by tricks.” So far, however, international authorities have not issued an alert.
Colombia News.
Kata Garzón shared a short video on Tik Tok in which she pointed out: “I was happy going out alone in Turkey, when suddenly…” They were going to kidnap her, she managed to register two of the subjects who had been following her for a while through a main square in Istanbul, no one had approached him to warn him, until an ice cream man told him what was happening.
She became nervous when she saw that two men did not take their eyes off her and had been following her for a while.
Since he needed the internet too, he went to the ice cream area.
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«I was going to a mosque and I left well dressed, very well covered. I went to do the tour, but I didn’t have Internet and I needed it to locate myself; There were many ice cream stalls and I saw a man who had a friendly face and I went to him to ask for Wi-Fi, he understood me and shared with me, while I used the Wi-Fi he told me to sit next to him, “he explained.
As he could, he spoke with the man, “it is difficult to communicate because they speak little English,” he said.
She with the ice cream man.
She asked him to write on the cell phone and they translated it, “You sit down for a while, then you go home, don’t hang out with anyone.”
He warned her that the men surely wanted to kidnap her.
The young woman, in the story times that she later shared, said that she had to enter the man’s small premises, and he even made her pass as her sister when the two subjects came to ask her who she was.
According to Kata Garzón, in the midst of all the tension, people began to surround the ice cream truck, but no one called the police or any authority. Finally “the ice cream man asked me for a car, he accompanied me to get on and I was able to leave.”
Although his plans were to stay for several days in the Turkish capital, “I preferred to leave the next day, because I could no longer leave in peace.”
He said that if he noticed that the cla men looked “obsessively”. He even managed to record one on a bus, and others in other spaces, looking directly at her.
The story of Kata Garzón, which she told two weeks ago, continues to go viral on networks.
She did not report the case to consular authorities.
She has not been the only one who has reported similar experiences.
Although many point out that they have traveled alone and have had no problems and that because of these stories “a country is stigmatized”, in Turkey even international human rights organizations have warned of the difficult situation for women, especially young women and those who see them alone.
human trafficking in that country it is an internationally recognized problem.
violence against women
In 2021, the world alarm went off when Erdoğan decided to withdraw from the historic international treaty on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
The Istanbul Convention according to organizations such as amnesty.org (Amnesty International), helped reduce and create care programs for women in that country.
In addition, it allowed monitoring to avoid recoil in spaces gained.
It happened in 2019 (the case was resolved) and like this:
Dancers went to Turkey, weren’t paid, cheated, and now they’re stranded at an airport
