US authorities, on Friday, arrested a Turkish author and her 17-year-old son wanted by Turkiye on charges that he was involved in a fatal car crash in Istanbul and then fled the country with the assistance of his mother, Reuters reports. Turkish novelist and poet, Eylem Tok, and her son, Timur Cihantimur, are scheduled to appear in federal court in Boston following their arrest pursuant to an extradition request from Turkiye. Their arrests were announced on the social media platform X by Turkish Justice Minister, Yilmaz Tunc, who said they were “captured in the United States in line with our extradition request.” Their arrests came after Interpol, last month, granted Turkiye’s request to issue a red notice for both Tok and her son. A […]
