MPB pleads for Sedat Peker, who left mysteriously from Turkey: He has residence and business permits in Kosovo

MPB, through a media communique, has said that Sedat Peker is not a citizen of Kosovo and does not own a Kosovo passport. However, the rule ministry reports it possesses temporary residence permits in Kosovo, as it has a business registered in Prizren.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports to you that after reporting to some media about the arrest of Turkish citizen Sedat Peker by the authority of northern Macedonia and his deportation to the Republic of Kosovo, that Turkish national is not a citizen of the Republic of Kosovo. The Ministry of Internal Affairs can confirm that the person in question does not own a Kosovo passport, as reported, but the same has only temporary residence permits, on behalf of a business registered in Prizren, from 2014 and valid until 29/12/2021<18x1>, the MPB communiqué said.

Peker has legally entered Kosovo on Monday, while today he has fled towards Albania.

We can inform you that Mr. Peker, has legally entered the Republic of Kosovo with the 18/01/2021 date and has emerged from the Republic of Kosovo in the direction of the Republic of Albania with a date 20/01/2021”, said the communiqué.

Yesterday, the Ahval media reported, announcing that Peker had been arrested in northern Macedonia and that he would be extradited to Turkey via Kosovo. This medium wrote that Peker was arrested at Turkey's request by Macedonian police.

Macedonian local news media, Coronos, described Seker as a famous <x0 drug lord” and reported that he was accused of trying to contact drug traffickers in northern Macedonia.

Peker had several visible high-level enemies within Turkey, including Berat Albayrak, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law, and Alatin Cakici, a mafia boss near Devlet Bahceli, coalition partner with Erdogan. He was imprisoned earlier during Ergenekon's judgments in 2013 and sentenced to ten years' length, but he was released as many other defendants months later when the charges collapsed.

Gangster left the country under a cloud of suspicion, Ahval writes. He had rejected reports that he was gone due to legal problems, saying he moved to the Balkans to pursue his business aspirations. Dönmez, Turkish journalist, however, claims that Peker may have left because of the dispute between him and Albayrak, who sought to arrest him, prompting him to emigrate.

Peker is also a longtime rival of Alatin Cakici, who was released from prison last year as part of an amnesty bill signed by Erdogan to reduce prison populations during COVID-19's pandemic. Bahcel personally lobbied too much for Cakici's release because he considered him a national hero for his work as a government attacker targeting “Armenian and Kurdish terrorists in the 1980s”.

In videos distributed by Kahraman TV, Peker has been filmed insulting Cakici in personal terms.

Northern Macedonia's Ministry of Interior Affairs has confirmed yesterday that it has been arrested by Sedat Seker, a contour character in Turkey suspected of multiple criminal acts. Peker was staying in northern Macedonia now and several months, respectively, at a hotel in Petrovec, Skopje, it reported. Alsat.

He was arrested on charges of violating the rules of residence by trying to penetrate him to Turkey. But during the procedures Peker has said that if he infiltrated there he could face inhumane torture by demanding transfer to another state like Kosovo, Alsat wrote. Unofficially, Alsat said he learned that Peker had a Kosovo passport and that late last night he moved to Kosovo with his team.