A man whose family members had claimed he was abducted by police officers in broad daylight in İstanbul on Jan. 20 returned home early on Tuesday, the Mezopotamya news agency reported.
Missing since around noon last Wednesday, Gökhan Güneş came back home on his own after he was reportedly left blindfolded in İstanbul’s Başakşehir district, where he works as an electrician and was abducted nearly a week ago, around 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
The development was announced on social media by the Law Office of the Oppressed (EHB).
“Our client Gökhan Güneş has just returned to his parents’ home in İstanbul’s İkitelli neighborhood. … We thank everyone who contributed to the efforts to find Gökhan,” the EHB said in a tweet, adding that a detailed statement would be made later in the day.
Gökhan’s family previously stated that they managed to acquire security camera footage showing his abduction. In the footage five people were seen forcing Gökhan into a car after he got off the bus at a station close to his workplace, they said.
The family reportedly handed over the footage, in which the license plate of the car can’t be seen, to the officers at the İkitelli Police Station and a prosecutor in İstanbul.
Gökhan’s sister Nurhayat told the Etkin news agency (ETHA) on Jan. 21 that they suspect he was abducted by government officials because it had happened before.
“He was briefly detained two years ago, and the officers let us know about it a day after it happened. He has been followed and harassed from time to time. They attempted to abduct him before,” she added.
Sezin Uçar, a lawyer representing the Güneş family, told BBC Turkish service that Gökhan had previously been kept behind bars before he was acquitted of charges related to anti-war demonstrations.
Enforced disappearances, which were common in Turkey during the 1990s, made a reappearance following a failed coup in July 2016, according to a report recently drafted by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu, who is also a prominent human rights activist and deputy chair of the Human Rights Committee in parliament.
The country’s intelligence agency has reportedly abducted dozens of people since 2016, with some 24 victims reporting, after they were found, that they were subjected to harsh torture during the time they were missing.
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from Turkish Minute https://www.turkishminute.com/2021/01/26/man-returns-home-days-after-allegedly-being-abducted-by-police-in-istanbul/
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