2023-10-13 10:59:56
The new extension of the Institute in Ankara, which will be attached to the Cervantes in Istanbul, will be located at Baskent University, a renowned private institution created in 1994.
“Spanish classes, workshops and seminars will be taught in its classrooms on the Bağlica Campus starting next January,” the Cervantes Institute has detailed.
A little later, training programs for Spanish teachers and examiners will be offered. Exams will also be taken and administered to obtain the official DELE Spanish diplomas.
The director of Cervantes of Istanbul, Fernando Martínez-Vara de Rey de Irezábal, and the president of Baskent University, Haldun Müderrisoğlu, will sign the agreement next Friday, the 13th, in the presence of the director of Cervantes, Luis García Montero, and of the ambassador of Spain, Javier Hergueta Garnica.
On Thursday night, García Montero will hold a literary evening with the writer Benjamín Prado within the framework of the Ibero-American Literature Meeting “October 12”, which is organized in Istanbul on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Day.
Previously, Martínez-Vara de Rey will moderate the colloquium “Eternal Stories” with the writers Héctor Abad Faciolince (Colombia) and Federico Navarrete (El Salvador).
Ankara has a population of close to six million inhabitants and more than twenty embassies of Ibero-American countries, which will facilitate the hosting of the numerous cultural activities organized by the Cervantes of Istanbul “and which can also be held in the political capital of the country.”
With this upcoming opening, the Cervantes Institute complements the teaching and cultural activity it carries out in the center of Istanbul and reinforces its presence and influence in the Republic of Turkey.
Since it opened in September 2001, the Cervantes in Istanbul has seen its teaching activity grow significantly: the number of annual enrollments to learn Spanish has doubled, going from 1,803 to more than 3,500.
According to the article “Spanish in Turkey” prepared in 2021 by the then director of the Istanbul center, Eduardo Manglano, Spanish is the second of the foreign languages that most interest students in that country, and has established itself as the third language for adults, behind English and German.
Among the reasons for the interest in learning Spanish is the large number of Spanish speakers – almost 500 million native speakers around the world – as well as various sociocultural factors such as football, music, gastronomy, cinema or television series. .
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