The son of Somalias president, alleged to have knocked over and killed a delivery rider in Istanbul, has fled Turkey despite an international arrest warrant, media reported Saturday.

Police had released Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud without any bail conditions after preliminary investigations into the accident, said daily newspaper Cumhuriyet.

The suspect left Turkey freely, said Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.

The mayor - a leading opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - accused the authorities of allowing this escape and being incapable of defending citizens rights in their own country.

The son of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had collided with a motorbike delivery man on November 30, according to a police report quoted by A Haber television.

Father of two children, Yunus Emre Gocer, died in hospital six days later.

The republics prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant on Friday after police went to the suspects home only to find he had been gone since December 2, the channel said.

The dead mans lawyer told Cumhuriyet that a first traffic police report into the crash had blamed the victim for negligence.

A second experts report with video recordings showed that the Somali suspect was 100 percent responsible, the lawyer said, but it added doubts he would ever be caught.

Turkey has had close relations with Somalia for the last 10 years and is the Horn of Africa nations leading economic partner, notably in the construction, education and health sectors as well as in military cooperation. (Guardian)