Myanmar is expected to deport a couple linked to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), according to recent media reports.

The couple, identified as Muhammet Furkan Sökmen and Ayşe Sökmen, was detained at Yangon airport on Wednesday evening as they tried to board a plane to Bangkok.

Sökmen is a teacher in Myanmar at a school run by FETÖ.

Government spokesman Zaw Htay said the family was stopped after Turkey canceled Sökmen's passport.

"It has nothing to do with the Myanmar government," he told reporters." He and his family will be deported as their passports are invalid."

Their detention comes after three branches of the Horizon International School, where Sökmen used to work, were recently shut down.

According to the Myanmar media, the government filed a complaint to police about the schools based on "national security" concerns.

Horizon, which shares a name with other FETÖ-linked schools in the United States, was established in the Asian country in the year 2000, and has campuses in Mandalay and Yangon.

The schools include a kindergarten, primary and secondary schools and a high school.

The FETÖ-linked schools are under closer scrutiny in the aftermath of the recent coup attempt in Turkey that left 250 people dead.

Turkey has asked several countries worldwide to shut down dozens of schools, colleges and businesses linked to the FETÖ network in the wake of the putsch attempt.

The terrorist group boasts a large network of schools in every continent and is accused of gaining new recruits to its cause through students trained at the schools.