Ainnurul Aisyah Yunos Ali Maricar, said when her husband, Ihsan Aslan, didn’t contact her after work like he normally did, she checked the CCTV footage at the building her husband’s office is located in.
She told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex this afternoon that the CCTV footage showed that he left his shop at 9pm last night.
“Based on the GPS, we could track his movement and he was last seen near the defence ministry building, near Jalan Maktab. Since then, his phone has been switched off.”
Ainnurul said she went to the ministry, but was chased out by the security who said she had no right to be there and that if she remained in the compound, she could be considered as trespassing.
“So I went straight to Dang Wangi police station to lodge a report, but there has been no news from them ever since.
“So I am begging the Malaysian government, please…. he deserves a fair trial,” the mother of three said, as she broke down in tears while talking to reporters.
Ainnurul, who is Malaysian, later said that her husband had been worried for some time now of being abducted or arrested, following a similar incident that happened to two other Turkish men last October.
It had been previously reported that two men, Alettin Duman and Tamer Tibik, were arrested by Malaysian authorities and extradited to Turkey in October. The duo were alleged to have links with the Gulen movement, which is outlawed in Turkey.
The Gülen movement is named after its leader, Turkish preacher Fethullah Gullen, who now lives in exile in the United States. Besides accused of being a secretive Islamic sect with a “cultish hierarchy”, the movement is also said to have “global, apocalyptic ambition”.
Ainnurul, however, denied any possibility of her husband being part of the group, saying he has been living in Malaysia for 15 years, and is here “purely for business”.
Ihsan runs a wholesale business for scarves.
“I will continue and I will keep asking him to be tried fairly. I want him to be free,” Ainnurul said.
Ihsan and another Turkish man, Turgay Karaman, were initially thought to have been abducted yesterday.
In a police report sighted by FMT, Karaman, who is a principal with TIME International School in Ipoh, was said to have been abducted in the car park of Wisma E&C in Damansara Heights yesterday afternoon.
His wife, Ayse, claimed five Malaysian men abducted her husband, based on CCTV footage at the car park.
However, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar sent out a message on Twitter earlier today stating that the men were not abducted but had been arrested in connection with activities that threatened national security.
Karaman was due to appear as a witness in a case at the magistrate’s court today.