By Halil Ibrahim Avsar and Cankut Tasdan
ANKARA (AA) – Turkey has launched a probe into 11 folk dancers who allegedly asked Hungary for asylum while there for a dance competition, said a statement by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday.
Speaking about the incident, Hayri Gurhan Ozanoglu, the head of Turkey's Folk Dance Federation, told Anadolu Agency: "We learned that 16 folk dancers from the Ankara Children and Youth Folk Dance Society Association went to Hungary to take part in a festival at the beginning of November.
“Eleven of them have not come back."
He added: "After we got that information, we applied to the prosecutor's office" in the capital Ankara.
The Youth and Sports Ministry also asked the prosecutor's office to investigate the incident.