A Turkish national who was feared to be abducted from a parking lot in Kuala Lumpur was actually arrested by the police.

In a Twitter posting, inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that T Karaman and another Turkish national, I Aslan, have been detained for activities that threaten national security.

According to Khalid, the pair was detained under Section 130 of the Penal Code which is related to committing terrorist acts.

Last night, another Turkish national, Suheyl Ozcelik, filed a police report regarding Karaman, after viewing a CCTV recording that showed the 47-year-old principal of an international school being bundled into a car by four men at the parking lot.

Karaman was scheduled to meet Ozcelik and his lawyers at a law firm in Wisma E&C in Damansara at 4.30pm yesterday.

When Ozcelik arrived with two others at 4.25pm, they saw Karaman's car at the parking lot and went to the law firm for the meeting.

The meeting was held but Karaman was not present. Ozcelik made several phone calls and sent text messages to Karaman, but there was no response.

Suspecting something amiss, Ozcelik, in his police report, said he then requested the building's security team to review the CCTV recording.

Karaman was supposed to be a witness in Ozcelik's father's criminal trial in Malaysia.

When contacted, his lawyer Muhammad Faizal Faiz Mohd Hasani confirmed the matter with Malaysiakini and said that a police report had been lodged.

A copy of the CCTV recording of the alleged abduction has also been made available to Malaysiakini.

'Torture in Turkey'

In an immediate reaction, Human Rights Commission deputy director for Asia, Phil Robertson, said the authorities must provide unfettered access to the family members and lawyers of the two arrested.

"There is little doubt that if they are returned to Turkey, they will face torture in detention, and if charged with crimes there, be subjected to a trial that will fall short of fair trial standards," Robertson said in a statement.

Ozcelik's father, Ismet Ozcelik, a Turkish university director, was reportedly arrested by Immigration officers on Dec 13 last year, despite him having a valid social visit pass.

Ismet was charged 10 days later with purportedly using criminal force on a public officer after he and his son tried to call the police over the immigration officers who went to Ozcelik’s apartment to seize his passport.

Despite Ozcelik and his family trying to post bail for Ismet, his father was not released by the authorities as his visit pass was revoked.

Ismet was only released after 53 days in Sungai Buloh Prison, after a refugee card from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was issued to him, after his passport was suddenly revoked by the Turkish government.

Ismet’s hearing is scheduled for today before a magistrate’s court.

Previously, in a letter to the magistrate, the law firm representing Ismet had expressed concerns that their client may meet a similar fate as two other Turkish nationals, who were teachers at an international school in Malaysia, who allegedly went missing last year and were deported back to Turkey with the help of Malaysian authorities.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has imposed a clampdown following a failed coup against him in July last year and this saw over 82,000 arrests and more than 2,000 universities and colleges linked to Fethullah Gulen, an imam and political figure who Erdogan said was responsible for the coup attempt, have been closed down.