Relatives and lawyers have received no information on the whereabouts of a Kurdish businessman abducted by three people in Istanbul 10 days ago, Artı Gerçek reported on Saturday.
Zeki Oğuz, who lives in Germany and has invested in a restaurant is Istanbul, was last seen being pushed into a car by three people after he went shopping in a supermarket in the province’s Kemerburgaz district.
Lawyer Abdurrahman Karabulut, who is also a relative of Oğuz, shared the CCTV footage showing the businessman’s abduction on Twitter on Friday.
“According to the information we have received, he has been kept by powers of the deep state,” the lawyer said.
Lawyer Eren Keskin, the co-chair of the Human Rights Association, also draw attention to the abduction on Twitter.
“Zeki Oğuz was abducted by counter-powers using the methods we witnessed in the 90s. The family is trying to be manipulated. Where is Zeki Oğuz,” she wrote.
Many Kurdish business people were abducted and later killed during the 1990s, at the peak of clashes between the Turkish military and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). In most cases, those business people were targeted on the grounds that they had been providing financial resources to the PKK. Many of those incidents remains unsolved, though many in Turkey believe that those murders were committed extrajudicially by groups linked to the country’s security forces.