Per Yakay-Der records and news article published in the Batman Postası Newspaper on 21st October 2014, twenty-nine-year-old Mahmut Demirel was a bus driver living in Batman. On 2nd April 1994, he was abducted by unknown men. He was not seen or heard from, nor have his bodily remains been found.

His wife searched for him to no avail.

A man, who was abducted and released on ransom in November 1994 by the Hizbullah organization claimed that he had been kept in the basement of a house along with Mahmut Demirel, Zeynel Kürsep, Resul Saçan, İsmail Ağaya and an unknown man.