Orhan Inandi, the director of Sapat network of prestigious schools in Kyrgyzstan, is the latest victim of a pattern of cases in which Turkey’s intelligence services have been involved in unlawfully transferring people to Turkey from countries around the world.
"Abducting, forcibly disappearing, and unlawfully transporting Orhan Inandi to Turkey from Kyrgyzstan demonstrates again Ankara’s ruthless disregard for the rule of law in general and most basic norms of international law", said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
On July 5, 2021, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on the air of the state TV channel TRT Haber that Orhan Inandi, one of the so-called top leaders of FETO, had been captured and taken to Turkey.
Orhan Inandi went missing on May 31, 2021. The wife of the president of Sapat international educational institution Reihan Inandi appealed to the president Sadyr Japarov three times with a request to help in search for her husband.
On July 6, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov said in an interview that the government will demand Inandi’s prompt return to Kyrgyzstan.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Affairs Ministry submitted a diplomatic note to the Turkish Ambassador, Ahmet Sadik Dogan, asking Turkey to return Inandi to Kyrgyzstan and to ensure that he is not ill-treated in detention, in accordance with the norms of international law.
As the human rights defenders note, over the past five years, scores of men alleged by the Turkish authorities to have links with the Gulen movement, living in countries around the world, have been arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Turkey.
There they are incarcerated on bogus terrorism charges in violation of due process rights and international law protecting basic rights including to liberty and security, a fair trial, and freedoms of opinion, expression, and association.
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