Child kidnapped to the north, govt monitoring case

A woman has reported her husband for kidnapping their three-year-old child and fleeing to the north, it emerged on Friday.

The child’s mother Martina Malikzada, 27, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, told the Cyprus Mail that the ordeal began almost two months ago on May 12.

The father, Cihan Ayyildiz, 28, a Turkish Kurdish national who also applied for asylum, said he was taking the child to the park but instead fled to the north. He was subsequently arrested for illegal entry and imprisoned.