Ramona Bautista Escaped to Turkey!

I heard about the news that Ramona Bautista was seen leaving Manila the other day, but I just heard from my BIL today that she was actually heading to Turkey via Hong Kong. The news said that she is joining her Turkish husband in Istanbul. More about this news below.



Ramona Bautista is 22 years old, sister of the murdered actor Ramgen Bautista and half-sister to Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr.

She seems to have run farther away from the arm of the law.

Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. on Saturday said he believed his half-sister Ramona “Mara” Bautista might have joined her husband in Turkey in an attempt to evade investigators looking into the October 28 killing of her brother Ramgen Bautista (Ram Revilla in show biz). The Philippines has no extradition treaty with Turkey. Revilla apparently had this in mind when he called on Ramona’s mother, Genelyn Magsaysay, to cooperate with the investigators and ask her daughter to return to the Philippines, where police had tagged her as the mastermind of the killing. The senator recalled that their father, former Senator Ramon Revilla Sr., was disappointed when Ramona got married at 19 to a Turkish national.

“She (Ramona) should face this. Her brother RJ (Ramon Joseph, another suspect) is in jail. With her departure, it is like telling everyone that the accusations are true,” Revilla Jr. said in live interview on a TV entertainment program Saturday afternoon.
“I’m consulting our lawyers. I will ask immigration to cancel her Philippine passport,” he said. Later in a hastily called press conference last night, the senator asked the Department of Foreign Affairs “to exert legal and diplomatic efforts to bring Ramona back to the country and face our justice system.”

The senator also dismissed Genelyn Magsaysay’s posts on social networking sites, where she complained of unfair treatment of her children by Revilla Sr., as an attempt to distract investigators and muddle the ongoing probe.
“Let’s not change the topic,” the senator said, shaking his head at a question about Magsaysay’s claim that Revilla Sr.’s legitimate children were treating her children shabbily, especially when it came to money. Revilla Jr. also reiterated his calls on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to uncover the “truth, regardless of who gets hurt.” In a prepared statement, the senator admitted that his decision not to prevent investigators from taking his half-brother RJ for questioning earned him Magsaysay’s ire.
But he said he was standing by that decision and that the Revilla clan would welcome the PNP’s findings.

Also on Saturday, airport authorities have begun an investigation to determine the identity of the man seen escorting Ramona when she flew to Hong Kong on Friday night. Manila International Airport Authority general manager Jose Angel Honrado confirmed that Ramona, 22, boarded Cathay Pacific Airways Flight CX 902 bound for Hong Kong at around 9 p.m. on Friday. It could not be determined if she had a connecting flight from Hong Kong to another country. A staff member at the Cathay Pacific office at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 1 told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that no one was authorized to divulge the flight details of passengers. But Maria Antonette Bucasas-Mangrobang, spokesperson of the Bureau of Immigration (BI), said that Ramona had indicated her destination as Istanbul, Turkey, and that she had “no return ticket.”

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I Love Letters..

Hi there! I received another letter from a fellow Filipina who has a Turkish boyfriend. She wrote me in Tagalog, but I will answer her in English in case that it might help others who might be reading this blog in the future.





Here is the situation.
April* is Filipina who works in Dubai. She met Arda* through chat and they'd been dating online for 6 years until they finally met here in the Philippines last August. The couple clicked and decided to get married. However, Arda* couldn't stay longer than 27 days. It was just a short vacation for the both of them. So, they are thinking of getting married July next year.

Here are the questions:
-What should we do in order to get married? He wants to get a fiancée visa for me but I think it's gonna be hard for us since I work in Dubai.
-Do you think it's better for us to first get married in the Philippines?
-How is the process? I don't have any idea because who are obviously new to this. We need your sincere advice so we could prepare and plan for it. Thank you so much.


Now for my answer:
Hi April* and Arda*!


I think it is better for you to first get married here in the Philippines before moving to Turkey. I don't know how is it like in the Philippine Embassy to Dubai, but thinking that it is still a foreign country and processing of necessary papers like CENOMAR and red ribbon might be hard for you, I really think you better get married here. In order to do that, you should get a vacation from your job so that you can process all your papers and do the ceremony.


For a civil marriage to a Turkish guy in the Philippines, you will be needing an authenticated birth certificate with red ribbon, CENOMAR with red ribbon, and later, a parental consent if under 21 years old and or parental advice if 21 to 25 and a marriage license. For your fiancé, he needs Certificate of no Marriage from the Turkish government, Turkish National ID stating that he's never married, and passport.


The good thing of getting married here in the Philippines is, your family and friends will be able to witness your ceremony. These days, the processing of marriage can be done in a minimum of one and half months.


Good luck!






*Names were changed to protect the identity of the letter sender.
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