Visit to family in Turkey turned into kidnapping for a young Danish woman

A 20-year-old Randers woman who was reported missing on Wednesday after visiting her family in Turkey is being kept there against her will by family members, according to her father.

Sibel Bilgin was doing chores with her mother and aunt in her parents’ hometown of Denizli when she disappeared, leaving behind a shoe.

Her father said his brother-in-law admitted he took Sibel and that the man wanted her to marry his son in Turkey. The father claimed his daughter had called him and ‘begged’ to get her passport back so she could return home to Denmark.

Relatives in Denmark are extremely worried about Sibel’s fate in Turkey. They believe she may become the victim of an honour killing and told Turkish newspaper DHA that she has been without her depression medication since the abduction.

Danish police have not yet gotten involved in the case. However, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry told The Copenhagen Post that both the Danish embassy in Ankara and Turkish police are now involved in investigating the matter.