This weekend, the Zwollenaar was still close to despair when he explained to RTL Nieuws that he was sent from pillar to post. In the meantime, the prospects are somewhat better. On Sunday, immediately after Zulfa was released from the hospital in Adana, she and her big brother traveled to Ankara in a bus. Zakwan had already e-mailed the Dutch embassy several times in an attempt to arrange a visa. “Last weekend I got a call that I could come on Monday.”