Turkish citizens kidnapped in Baku and sent home

Turkish media reported the disappearance of two citizens of this country in Baku. This happened immediately after the Azerbaijani courts released them from custody. According to the media, Ayhan Seferoglu was accused of links with the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara declared the organizer of the failed coup in July 2016.

Ankara's court on January 5, 2018, announced that Seferoglu was wanted. In Azerbaijan, he lived in the Narimanov district of Baku and worked in the company "Turk-Baijan". Previously, he taught at one of the Turkish schools in Baku, part of the structure of "Hizmet", headed by Gulen.

Based on Ankara's request, Seferoglu was arrested on February 8 and the Narimanov court arrested him for 40 days. However, on the 19th, he was unexpectedly released on the initiative of First Deputy Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov, his lawyer Zaur Niftaliyev said.

On February 19, the Narimanov District Court granted the idea of releasing Seferoglu from custody. However, a few minutes later he disappeared from the courtroom. According to the lawyer, the employees of the Penitentiary Service, under the pretext of issuing documents, took Seferoglu to the lower floor and were put in a car and taken away, said the lawyer.

It was impossible to find out his place either by the Migration Service or by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Spouse of Seferoglu said Meydan TV that after a while from an unknown number received a text message that her husband is in the Istanbul police. Turkish media also write that along with Seferoglu, another citizen of this country Erdogan Taylan, who was tried in Binagadi court, disappeared, and he also disappeared.