Kyrgyzstan denies role in Turkey's rendition of Gulen-linked educator
While the Kyrgyz government has denied helping Turkish intelligence services kidnap a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator, rights groups say it's unlikely that he could have been taken otherwise.
Kyrgyz authorities have denied claims that they conspired in the kidnapping by Turkish intelligence services of a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator who went missing from Bishkek on May 31, yet another victim of Turkey’s illegal rendition of alleged terror suspects.
A spokesman for Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov said it was “absurd to speculate” that Kyrgyz authorities were involved in the kidnapping of Orhan Inandi. But rights groups say it's unlikely that he could have been taken without their complicity.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday that Inandi had been brought back to Turkey, the first time his whereabouts were known since his disappearance. Inandi was widely believed to have been held at the Turkish Embassy in Bishkek. It's unclear when he was flown back to Turkey.
Erdogan proudly declared after meeting with members of his cabinet in Ankara that as a result of “unique and patient efforts,” Turkey’s national intelligence service had brought “a top Central Asian leader of FETO, Orhan Inandi, to our country to face justice.”
