Per press statement released on 10th January 2010 by Cumartesi İnsanları and news article published on 18th January 2013 in the Batman Çağdaş Newspaper, one day in 1994 Ahmet, his wife and his aunt-in-law were stopped on their way to Silvan by members of the Hezbollah (an Islamist militant organization) who wanted to check their identity papers. Ahmet was threatened by the masked men when he objected to the identity check. He kept receiving threats and warnings afterwards.

About five months after this incident, on 20th September 1994, he was stopped again by members of the Hezbollah on the road to Silvan. His eyes were tied with a white cloth and he was forced into a white car. A shepherd witnessed the event but did not want to testify out of fear. This was the last time Ahmet Biçimli was seen alive.

His family began searching for him and learned that he was kept in a village controlled by the Hezbollah. The organization wanted one of his sons to join their them and told the son that should he do so, his father would be released. But Ahmet’s wife did not allow that.

Ahmet Biçimli has not been seen or heard from again, nor have his bodily remains been found.

His family’s insistent search and applications to state authorities led nowhere. A few of years later, the rest of the family had to move to Batman due to economic hardship they endured.

Ahmet Biçimli’s family applied to the European Court of Human Rights.