Citizens who lost family in Turkey denies links ISIS

Fauzi family and Hafid said the two men were traveling to Turkey for tourist and business destination.

Fauzi family and Hafid Umar Umar Babher, two Indonesian citizens from Solo missing in Turkey, both men deny links with ISIS group.

Muhammad Arif, brother Fauzi and Hafid, confirmed the departure of her siblings to Turkey. According to Arif, the younger siblings trip for leisure and business destination.

"In addition to the tour, the visit is also a business agenda because my sister it was business draperies and herbal medicines from the Middle East," he said at the office of the Legal Aid Board Consultation and Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, Monday (9/3).

Therefore, Arif regretted statements of government officials linked the 16th citizen with ISIS.

"It should be a statement filed with the official notice the feelings of the bereaved family. My brother was absolutely never join such activities. Since they both were focused in the trading business. Kalai governor last year focused agate, while Hafid're getting orders draperies in the amount of big, "said Arif told the BBC Indonesian contributors.

Immigration authorities, according to Arif, had visited the parents Hafid and Fauzi. At that time the immigration authorities to ensure that the group is missing in Turkey is his family. "Yesterday there were officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration ask me that," he said.

Earlier, the former head of the National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT) Ansyaad Mba said some citizens who disappeared in Turkey related to terrorist networks. Description Indonesian government official said 10 people between 16 Indonesians from Surabaya, while 6 others came from Solo, Central Java.

Family Hafid Umar, from Solo citizen missing in Turkey, business draperies.

Lost Contact

When heading to Turkey, Hafid also invited his wife, Soraiyah, and three children. They departed on 23 February and plans they will return to Indonesia in early March. However, until now no longer news related to the position of their existence.

"My sister last Fauzi contact with me on Friday (27/2) then. It was just talking niceties like, 'By-by it do not forget it'. Well, when the phone was my sister position in Turkey for wearing the mobile phone number the country, "he said.

After reportedly disappeared from the tourist bureau, said she, her two sisters had never contacted him again. In fact, messaging services via a mobile phone and electronic mail services no longer dibalasnya. "I also had to ask for help from family in Abu Dhabi."

Arif said his family deeply regrets the travel agents who have never contacted the news related loss of Fauzi, Hafid, and family Hafid.

Source : bbc.co.uk/indonesia