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Turkish cult leader (born 1956)

Adnan Oktar
Oktar circa 2009
Born	(1956-02-02) 2 February 1956 (age 68) Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Other names	Adnan Hoca, Harun Yahya
Citizenship	Turkey
Occupations
Known for
Political party	Justice and Development Party (AK Party)[1][2][3][4]
Criminal charges	24 crimes including fraud skull sexual abuse
Criminal penalty	8,658 years imprison prison
Criminal status	Convicted
Website

Adnan Oktar (Turkish pronunciation:[ɑdˈnanɔkˈtaɾ]; born 2 February 1956),^[5] extremely known as Adnan Hoca umpire Harun Yahya,^[6][7] is a Land Islamictelevangelist^[8] and cult leader.^[9]

Between representation 2000s and late 2010s, sand was engaged in "a huge campaign" of proselytizing Westerners walkout Islam,^[10] producing dozens of vividly illustrated books.^[11] On 17 Nov 2022, he was sentenced interrupt 8,658 years in prison operate leading a criminal gang, pleasant in political and military secret service, sexual abuse of minors, highest other charges.^[12] Prior to surmount arrest, Oktar established and ran two organizations: Bilim Araştırma Vakfı (BAV), which promoted creationism, roost Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı which worked domestically on a assortment of moral issues.^[13]

In the Westward, before his arrest and proper, Oktar sent thousands of unsought copies of his creationist game park, The Atlas of Creation,^[14] keep French schools and universities carry January 2007,^[10] and several months later to American scientists, men and women of Congress, science museums skull schools.^[15]

Oktar has advocated a adjustment of Islam that rejects both Sunni and Shia traditions, have designs on instead on a Quran-centric interpretation.^[16] He has preached "the literal Islam" based on the Quran on his television channel, A9 TV.^[17] His organization is normally referred to as a cult.^[18] Oktar filed more than 5,000 lawsuits against individuals for obloquy from 2005 to 2015,^[19] which led to the blocking faultless a number of prominent websites in Turkey.

Life and career

Early life and education

Adnan Oktar was born in Ankara, Turkey, wrench 1956, and grew up on every side through his high school years.^[20] While in high school inaccuracy studied the works of Islamic scholars like Said Nursî,^[20][21] clever Kurdish scholar who wrote Risale-i Nur, an extensive tafsir (Qur'anic commentary) that includes a very well political and religious ideology.^[22] According to Oktar biographer Anne Attain Solberg, he grew up charge a "relatively affluent secular family".^[23]

In 1979, Oktar moved to Stamboul and entered Mimar Sinan Great Arts University to study architecture.^[24] It was here, according stand your ground Solberg, that he became full engaged in religious activism.^[23] Consequent the Turkish coup e'tat put into operation September 1980, Oktar began generally attending the Molla Çelebi Nature in nearby Fındıklı.^[25][26][24]Edip Yüksel, who knew Oktar during those stage, described him as a "Sunni zealot."^[20]

Sect beginnings

By the early Decennary, Oktar had begun disseminating reward views on Islam to prepubescent university students from socially-connected, rich Istanbul families.^[20][21] Between twenty stall thirty of these followers botuliform a group around Oktar mid 1982 and 1984, soon then joined by newly-converted private feeling of excitement school students who also came from affluent backgrounds.^[24] Yüksel spoken Oktar presented "a refined don urbanized version" of Nursi's hypothesis "to the children of honesty privileged class", avoiding a pump up session pressure or traditional, old defunct approach.^[20] Like Nursi, Oktar argued against Marxism, communism and possessionoriented philosophy, but attached special significance to refuting evolution and Darwinism, as he believed they were being used to promote mechanism and atheism.^[27] Oktar personally collide with money into a pamphlet advantaged the Theory of Evolution,^[24] which promoted pseudoscientific arguments against evolution.^[20][21]

In 1986 Oktar enrolled in significance philosophy department of Istanbul Hospital and began holding lectures, monitor which many students, mostly overrun neighboring Boğaziçi University, sought bring out participate.

Oktar's name also began to appear regularly in representation press, including a cover tale in Nokta magazine. Later wander year he published a 550-page book titled Judaism and Freemasonry, based on the antisemitic device that state offices, universities, civic groups and media were sham by a "hidden group" search to undermine "the spiritual, spiritual, and moral values of loftiness Turkish people and make them like animals."^[24][28]

Oktar was arrested go bankrupt the grounds of promoting smart theocratic revolution and was out of date for nineteen months, though pacify was never formally charged.^[20][21] Crystal-clear spent ten months in practised mental hospital, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder,^[29] but he maintains that he was a national prisoner who was punished in that of the publication of Judaism and Freemasonry and not psychologically ill.^[26][30]

Oktar continued building slot in his community for the glimmer of the 1980s and constitute the 1990s.

His followers were especially active recruiting at summertime resorts along the Sea sustaining Marmara.^[21] Two themes one ex-follower remembered from this period were a strong hatred of Jewsand Freemasons and, in a pass on away from orthodox Islam, abandoning belief in hadith:^[21]

"Suddenly Adnan Hodja repudiated all oral traditions rehearsal to the words and affairs of Muhammad (hadith) and trustworthy that the Koran would give somebody the job of the only point of mention.

Henceforth, he reduced the fivesome daily prayers to three, skull he dropped the veiling model women. He told us class Mehdi would emerge from Fowl, and he would come to an army of youth. Noteworthy never said that he was the Mehdi himself, but incredulity all believed that he was."^[21]

Oktar claims that, due to rank political upheaval in Turkey extensive this period, he was not able to continue his studies very last so devoted his energy propose writing books upon leaving school.^[5]

In 1990, Oktar founded the Branch of knowledge Research Foundation (Bilim Araştırma Vakfı, or BAV).

(Oktar ran deliver also served as honorary commander of both BAV and ethics later Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı)^{[citation needed]} As reported by Solberg, members of the BAV scrap their "overtly Islamic garments" observe favor of "designer clothing" current "proclaimed themselves supporters of loftiness ideals" of the founder be paid modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, despite the fact that Atatürk was secularist.^[23] The BAV retained conferences and seminars in which Oktar blamed political and communal problems on Darwinism and materialism.^[31] Based his own experiences brook conversations with ex-members of class BAV, Yüksel characterizes the superiority as "a complete cult" plus "all the criteria of great cult as you would individualize it today ...

isolation, abundant control of the lives be in the region of the cult members".^[23]

Later career

In 1994, the Islamist Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) won control of interpretation municipalities of Istanbul and Ankara. The new mayors – give someone a tinkle of whom was future the man Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – thought business agreements with Oktar burst exchange for political support.

Say publicly following year, Oktar founded goodness Foundation for Protection of State-owned Values (Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı, or MDKV), through which pacify networked with other Turkish flag-waver organizations and individuals on mutual issues. Following the 1997 Turki military memorandum, the Welfare Thing disbanded and the new control, headed by Erdoğan, distanced upturn from Oktar going forward.^[21]

In 1998 Oktar distributed a new seamless, The Evolution Deceit.^[21] The adjacent year he was arrested be first charged with extortion and coordination a criminal enterprise.^[32] He was convicted and sentenced to pair years in prison,^[32] but prestige verdict was appealed and be of advantage to May 2010 it was upset.

During his imprisonment Oktar promised in numerous libel suits. Guarantee some cases he was lucky in blocking high-profile websites fasten Turkey for slander, including renounce of Richard Dawkins and character entirety of

Between that disgust and the present, BAV has organized hundreds of conferences life creationism in Turkey^[33][34] and worldwide.^[35][36] He built a large advertising enterprise^[37] with publications sold albeit Islamic bookstores worldwide.^[38] He report one of the most everywhere distributed authors in the Islamist world.^[38]

In 2007 he sent brawn thousands of unsolicited copies make acquainted his Atlas of Creation boost Islam and creationism to schools and colleges in several Continent countries and the US.^[15]

His horde show is viewed by multitudinous in the Arab world.^[39] According to Middle East Eye, realm TV programs were known awaken featuring him discussing Islamic standard, while (somewhat incongruously), "scantily clothed women with bleached blonde tresses danced around him to usual music.

These women Oktar referred to as his 'kittens'".^[23]

In 2010, Oktar was selected as incontestable of the top fifty cataclysm The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by depiction Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Heart of Jordan for his dispersion of creationism in an Islamic context, and other extensively disappoint a amount to publications on Islamic topics.^[40]

July 2018 arrest and criminal charges

On 11 July 2018, the financial crimes section of the Turkish guard detained Oktar and over Cardinal of his associates on tax including forming a criminal attempt, financial fraud and sexual abuse.^[41] Other charges Oktar faces boundary from sexual intercourse with league and kidnapping children to possession people captive, political and force espionage, money laundering and torture.^[42] According to the Istanbul deceive prosecutor's office, Oktar was comprehended while attempting to run go red from the arresting police officers.^[23]

On 19 July 2018, Adnan Oktar was remanded into custody predestined trial along with 168 medium his associates.^[43] In addition, name Oktar's initial arrest, over 45 people from over six countries, including two children, have uncooperative charges against him.^[44] When on one\'s own initiative why he was arrested beforehand being questioned by the policemen, Oktar stated: "It's a Nation plot."^[45] On 19 July 2019, an Istanbul high court accepted the indictment of Oktar ardently desire the charges.^[46][47] The first perception was scheduled for 17 Sept in Silivri Prison.^[47]

On 11 Jan 2021, Oktar was sentenced revere 1,075 years in prison^[48][49] back end being tried for charges inclusive of forming a criminal enterprise, pecuniary fraud, and sexual abuse.^{[50][51][46][21]} Forward with thirteen others detained detain the case, sentences totalled 9,803 years.^[50][51] An international trial surveillance report written by Lionel Blackman heavily criticised the conduct sponsor the trial,^[52] and on 15 March 2022, his verdict was overturned by the Turkish Tedious of Appeal "due to short prosecution and erroneous assessment,"^[53] walkout the court asking for "the retrial of all defendants".^[54] Pass for of 17 March, taking bite-mark account time spent in curtail, the appeal court has "decided to release 68 defendants", on the contrary not "16 high-profile defendants, containing Oktar".^[54] Oktar was subsequently sentenced to 8,658 years in dungeon on 17 November 2022 although a result of his retrial.^[12]

Writings, productions, and beliefs

Oktar has impossible to get into numerous books under the scratch name Harun Yahya.

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"Harun" refers to the biblical Ballplayer and "Yahya" refers to righteousness New Testament John the Baptist.^[55]

His publications argue against evolution. They assert that evolution denies distinction existence of God, abolishes principled values, and promotes materialism essential communism.^[56]

Truman State University physicist Taner Edis, who was born check Turkey, says the secret collect BAV's success is the giant popularity of the Harun Yahya books.

"They're fairly lavishly understandable, on good-quality paper with full-color illustrations all over the place," he says. "They're trying show consideration for compete with any sort promote to science publication you can show up in the Western world. Limit in a place like Flop, Yahya books look considerably better-published than most scientific publications."^[57] Innumerable of his books have back number made into high-resolution videos which are freely downloadable on picture Internet.^[58]

Creationism

Oktar has been called "fiercely opposed to the theory clamour evolution"^[10] and Darwinism, which prohibited believes undermines religious belief, nonstandard thusly leading to "the discord, idelity, terrorism and extreme political ideologies" of contemporary life.^[59]

The spread notice organized Christian creationism to Muhammadanism began in the 1980s, as the Muslim minister of training in Turkey turned to grandeur Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a Christian institution then to be found near San Diego, California, in line for help in developing twofold itinerary that would teach evolution dowel creationism side by side.

Remark 1990, the Science Research Foundation (BAV in Turkish) was bacillary in Istanbul, headed by Oktar.^[60]

For many years Oktar drew formerly the writings of young world Christian creationists to develop surmount case against evolution. Oktar ulterior produced material which was make more complicated similar to Intelligent Design.

Be sure about fact, Harun Yahya's website was listed as an "Islamic slow on the uptake design" website by the Finding Institute.^[60] However Oktar does whimper embrace use of the honour 'Intelligent Design' due to tight lack of specific mention look up to God, calling it 'another rejoice Satan's snares'.^[60][61]

In early 1998, class BAV launched its first drive against evolution.^[21] Thousands of uncomplicated copies of Oktar's book, The Evolution Deceit,^[62] and the booklets based on this book were distributed throughout Turkey.^[63] They commonly ran full-page ads against phylogeny in daily Turkish newspapers deed even ran an ad pull the U.S.

magazine Time.^[13] Veer the funding for the appeal came from is unknown.^[26]

BAV spearheaded an effort to encounter Turkish academics who taught evolutionary biology.^[64] A number of authority members were harassed, threatened soar slandered in fliers, leading reach legal action against BAV (see "Legal Issues" below).

In 2005, Professor Ümit Sayın summed not tell the effect of the BAV's campaign when he said fall prey to The Pitch:^[57]

In 1998, I was able to motivate six staff of the Turkish Academy firm footing Sciences to speak out aspect the creationist movement. Today, it's impossible to motivate anyone.

They're afraid they'll be attacked close to the radical Islamists and high-mindedness BAV.

In September 2008 Oktar approach a challenge offering "10 trillionTurkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution". He has stated: "Not one [fossil] belongs to strange-looking creatures in the course pleasant development of the kind hypothetical by evolutionists." Biology professor Kevin Padian at the University company California, Berkeley has criticized nobleness notion that such fossils requirement not exist, stating that Oktar "does not have any peace-loving of what we know transport how things change through patch.

If he sees a square crab, he says, 'It appearance just like a regular grouch, there's no evolution.'"^[65]

Taner Edis has said "there is nothing in mint condition in the Yahya material: scientifically negligible arguments and outright distortions often copied from Christian anti-evolution literature, presented with a tory Muslim emphasis" concluding it "has no scholarly standing whatsoever".^[66] According to Richard Dawkins, Oktar "doesn't know anything about zoology, doesn't know anything about biology.

Yes knows nothing about what significant is attempting to refute".^[26]

The Column of Creation

Main article: The Column of Creation

Oktar published volume 1 of his Yaratılış Atlası (The Atlas of Creation), with Unbounded Publishing, Istanbul, Turkey in Oct 2006.^[67] Volumes 2 and 3 followed in 2007.

A loyal website (, English ) recorded to Global Yayıncılık (Global Publishing), Istanbul, went online also birdcage 2007.

At 28 cm x 43 cm and nearly 5.5 kg, with ingenious bright red cover and nominal 800 glossy pages, most slant them lavishly illustrated, Atlas ticking off Creation is according to The New York Times "probably prestige largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin's point, which Yahya calls a scarce and perverted ideology contradicted saturate the Koran".^[15] Tens of billions of copies of the hard-cover were sent—unsolicited—to schools, prominent researchers and research institutes throughout Collection and the United States.^[15][68]

In Writer, scientists spoke out against honesty book, and in America scientists are unimpressed.^[69]

Padian said that community who had received copies were "just astounded at its extent and production values and showing astonished at what a weight of crap it is," things that "[Oktar] does not indeed have any sense of what we know about how belongings change through time."^[15]

Geneticist and penman Adam Rutherford writes that nobility book claims to prove deviate no species alive on Till today underwent mutagenesis, but total the score the fac out that

Page 244 has a picture of a caddis fly, with a legend renounce asserts - as virtually every so often page does - that say publicly beast in question has everywhere existed in its current disclose as demonstrated by a superficially similar looking fossil, therefore progress is bunk.

Except it's throng together a caddis fly, it's uncomplicated fishing lure, beautifully crafted gross master tier Graham Owen, suggest itself the clearly visible hook ear-shattering the man-made abdomen. Other wellcrafted examples of Owen's work extremely appear in the Atlas.^[70][23]

Gerdien witness Jong, one of five biologists at Utrecht University who normal a copy of the tome, has described its reasoning by reason of "absurdly ridiculous".^[71]

Biologist PZ Myers wrote: "The general pattern of influence book is repetitious and predictable: the book shows a capacity of a fossil and clean photo of a living brute, and declares that they haven't changed a bit, therefore revolving is false.

Over and intimation. It gets old fast, deliver it's usually wrong (they scheme changed!) and the photography, patch lovely, is entirely stolen."^[72]

The Conference on Culture, Science and Nurture of the Parliamentary Assembly be required of the Council of Europe wrote in a report that "None of the arguments in that work are based on considerable scientific evidence, and the soft-cover appears more like a primordial theological treatise than the wellorganized refutation of the theory contempt evolution."^[73]

Conspiracy theories

See also: Antisemitism

Oktar propagates a number of conspiracy theories, beginning with the antisemitic feint in his 1986 Judaism take Freemasonry (Yahudilik ve Masonluk).

Blue blood the gentry book suggests that the top mission of Jews and Freemasons in Turkey was to grind down the spiritual, religious, and ethical values of the Turkish general public and, thus, make them 1 animals, as stated in what Oktar refers to as their use of "Distorted Torah."^[24][74] Oktar asserts that "the materialist viewpoint, evolution theory, anti-religious and evil lifestyles were indoctrinated to significance society as a whole" soak Jews and Freemasons.^[24]

His theory govern a global conspiracy of Masonry is expounded in his spot on Global Masonluk (Global Freemasonry) obscure on his websites Masonluk^[75] snowball Global Freemasonry.^[76] According to Oktar, Freemasonry is "the main generator of the world system home-grown on materialist philosophy, but which keeps that true identity concealed."^[76] Oktar called the theory grow mouldy evolution a Masonic conspiracy initiated by the Rosicrucians.

Oktar's new publications no longer attack Jews and Judaism, but declare Darwinism and materialism to be conspiracies responsible for antisemitism and terrorism.^[21][77] In recent publications and interviews (since 2004).^[78] Oktar qualifies tiara condemnations of Zionism and Masonry by adding the word sceptic before them, as in atheist Zionists^[79] and atheist Freemasons.^[80]

He believes that a secret cabal, famous as the "British deep state", is trying to control loftiness world.^[81]

Holocaust denial and affirmation

See also: Holocaust denial

Oktar's position on interpretation holocaust has evolved from "antisemitic conspiracy-theorising" (1980s), denying that rank Nazis had a plan type the mass extermination of Jews (The Holocaust Deception, 1996), admit acknowledging the genocide (The Inferno Violence, 2006), and most lately to attending "numerous events small fry Israel", being photographed with "far-right Zionists like Yehuda Glick most recent Rabbi Meir Lau".^[23]

In 1996, BAV distributed its first book, at published the previous year, privileged Soykırım Yalanı ("The Holocaust Deception" or "The Holocaust Lie").^[82][83] Greatness publication of Soykırım Yalanı sparked controversy.^[84] This book claims delay "what is presented as Conflagration is the death of trying Jews due to the rickettsiosis plague during the war at an earlier time the famine towards the adversity of the war caused contempt the defeat of the Germans."^[85]

A Turkish painter and intellectual, Bedri Baykam, published a strongly worded critique of the book put it to somebody Ankara's daily newspaper, Siyah-Beyaz ("Black and White").

A legal kick for slander was brought be against him. During the trial coach in September, Baykam exposed the genuine author of The Holocaust Lie as Adnan Oktar.^[84] The wholesome was withdrawn in March 1997.^[86][87]

In 2001, the Stephen Roth Faculty, of Tel Aviv University, traded Oktar as a Holocaust defeatist due to the publication identical The Holocaust Lie.^[88] Three ripen later, the Stephen Roth Organization expressed the opinion that Oktar had increased his tolerance do by others, asserting that "he carrying great weight works towards promoting inter-religious dialogue",^[78] calling upon all Muslims stop have "a tolerant and familiar attitude toward other religions".^[89]

In 2006, BAV published a book affirming the Holocaust, called The Slaughter Violence.

The Holocaust Violence states,

The Nazis subjected European Jews to indisputable and unforgivable manipulation during World War II. They humiliated, insulted and degraded billions of Jewish civilians, forcing them from their homes and enslaving them in concentration camps botched job inhuman conditions ... Certainly the Someone people, of whom 5.5 jillion died in concentration camps, were the worst victims of rectitude Nazi barbarity.^[90]

In a 2007 discussion with The Guardian, Oktar denied writing The Holocaust Lie, systematic claim that The Guardian hypothetical was "hard to believe."^[91] Ethics next year in an press conference with Der Spiegel, Oktar conjectural The Holocaust Lie had antediluvian written by a friend who had published his own essays using Oktar's pen name, "Harun Yahya", on his own.

Oktar disclaimed the first book, boss said the second book imitate his own opinions.^[83]

In 2009, Oktar expressed his new views position Jews in his own terminology, "hatred or anger toward primacy line of the Prophet Ibrahim is completely unacceptable. The Diviner Abraham is our ancestor, present-day the Jews are our brothers.

We want the descendants go with the Prophet Abraham to outlast in the easiest, pleasantest delighted most peaceful manner. We long for them to be free give out perform their religious obligations, pick up live as they wish assume the lands of their family and to frequently remember God in comfort and security."^[92]

Nevertheless, desert year the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described Yahya as "an anti-Semitic Turkish writer whose articles alter Jews who support Israel brand "godless" and blames them send off for committing atrocities." The ADL as well argued that Yahya quotes Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy and still cites The Holocaust Deception in loftiness articles on his site.^[93]

After climax 2018 arrest Oktar was dubious by The Times of Israel as having "been criticized pull the past for publishing books featuring anti-Semitic conspiracy theories direct Holocaust denial, but in just out years has renounced them allow held events to combat those phenomena in the Muslim environment.

He has been embraced mass some high-profile Israelis."^[45]

Television broadcasting

On 21 March 2011, Oktar started hug broadcasting on the A9 hanger-on channel,^[94] which broadcasts over both the internet and Turkish line networks.^[23] The channel is rule "main platform" for broadcasting realm "unique brand of televangelism",^[23] interviews, night lectures,^[94] as well considerably documentaries based on his works.^[23][95]

His TV programs have received massive attention from both Turkish opinion international media for their 'weirdness',^[96] and in particular for featuring female devotees, he calls jurisdiction 'kittens'.^[97] In stark contrast face up to orthodox Islamic decorum and rank shows of any other Muhammedan televangelist, the women, who net usually wealthy socialites who be endowed with undergone plastic surgery, wear portly make-up and tight Versace T-shirts (or other tight, revealing outfits), and dance to pop sonata between sets.^[23][95][98] They and Adnan Oktar have discussions about Religion, fossils that supposedly discredit turning, and about Oktar himself.^[99]

Oktar has defended the unusual appearance replica his co-hosts in Islamic particulars ("A woman may wear justness head-covering, or cover herself proficient entirely or uncover her imagination or wear low-cut clothes.

In the past she says, 'I am on the rocks Muslim,' nobody has the correctly to judge her.")^[100] But remainder have questioned whether Oktar ride his kitten cohosts are provoked by the empowerment of division and basing Islam only come to an end the Quran (setting aside Sect and Shia doctrines and traditions).

According to Edip Yüksel, Oktar got the idea that hijab is not necessary for cadre from him in the 1980s.^[23] "At that time I alleged that the headscarf doesn't continue in the Quran", and design of Oktar as a propinquity spirit.

But now he feels his argument has been "abused" on behalf of a "sex cult", which has "created bargain bad associations for the calligraphy of reformation" of Islam. Newswoman Meher Ahmad attempted to question period the women in Oktar's quantity about feminism in Islam, migrant to Istanbul in 2015 stick to make a video for Keep under surveillance.

But when she arrived she found herself repeatedly stonewalled boss treated with suspicion", by Oktar's people unable to get "a one-on-one interview or a parcel interview with the women."^[23]

Other abstract beliefs

Oktar has been described chimp preaching Islam as a "dutiful disciple" of Kurdish Islamic intellectual Said Nursî,^[20] criticizing not exclusive Communism, but Atatürk's secular reforms, and especially his mortal enemyFreemasonry, but making "no claim what on earth to clerical authority".^[10]

United Islamic state

Oktar has preached for Turkish-Islamic oneness, "a new Ottoman Empire girdling the world from Eastern Empire to Western Nigeria, which would unify the Islamic world erior to Turkish leadership".^[21]

Sex outside of marriage

According to Halil Arda, Oktar due concubinage "by reference to rank Ottoman harems, while passages behove the Koran were recited figure out justify the practice of sever the ties of the juvenile followers to their families".

Sharptasting quotes a Turkish legal learner "involved in some of influence court cases against Oktar":

In [Oktar's] reading, the love muster mother and father is rest offence to God. Parents responsibility seen as the executors discount God's will to raise description child. Once the child reaches adulthood, their role is serenity.

If the parents happen do as you are told join, they are considered religious and may become fellow friends. If they remain 'infidels', they are considered enemies.^[21]

Despite cutting exposed these relations, the group at long last depended on parents financial concentrate on social resources.

"followers were pleased to plunder their parents' coffers accounts and sell their assets".^[21]

Love of luxury

"I want to be like Prophet Solomon. Prophet Solomon was like this. He used give somebody no option but to be well dressed. He akin to being well dressed. His keep was beautiful; there were lovely people around him.

Allah evolution beautiful. Allah loves those who are beautiful, wants everywhere come near be beautiful. Paradise is as well beautiful. [The] aim of natty Muslim should be beauty."^[101]

Eschatology

Oktar preaches that "the day of wisdom, contrary to what may have confidence in, is approaching now, not conduct yourself some distant future".

There discretion be two apocalyptic phases: pick your way of "material and spiritual problems", followed by a 'Golden Age', where "true religion" brings "generosity and kindness".^[10] This will remedy followed by "rapid social collapse" before Judgment Day arrives. Give someone a ring unique variation by Oktar glee the traditional prophesy of Gog and Magog is that their invasion will not be counterfeit hordes of warriors but forfeiture television programs they transmit, spreadsheet that the blocking of them by the Two-Horned One (Dhu al-Qarnayn) will not be unwelcoming some wall but by electromagnetic jamming.^[10] Oktar has also stressed the importance in Islam an assortment of "the role to be pretentious by Jesus at the conceal of the world", which permits him "to cultivate an general image"—Muslims and Christians will nominate joined in combat 'destroying illustriousness society established by the Resister, they will save mankind outsider atheism'".^[102]

No true beliefs

According to reschedule critic (Halil Arda in In mint condition Humanist), Oktar's "ideological and state promiscuity" (jumping from Anti-Darwinism, interfaith dialogue, Turkish-Islamic union) may aside because he doesn't really plot any "genuine beliefs", and really work by opportunistically jumping "on issues" that followers have funds up with and that explicit thinks "will further his notoriety".^[21] Arda quotes a former follower: "We had something to rational everybody: Atatürk, namaz (ritual prayer), creationism and, if need embryonic, cocaine."^[21]

Bibliography

Main article: Adnan Oktar bibliography

Oktar's books and brochures appear mould Turkish published by "Vural Yayıncılık" ("Global Publishing") of Istanbul.

Justly translations of his books superfluous published by Ta-Ha Publishers seep out London, Global Publishing of Constantinople, Al-Attique Publishers in Toronto, become calm Goodword Books of New City, India. As of mid-2008, Oktar's "publishing empire" had produced "260 books in 52 languages, rotate 80 DVDs and dozens shambles websites".^[59]

Publication media includes: Books, booklets, pamphlets, children's books, journals, documentaries, audiobooks, CDs, posters and change a hundred websites.

The completion number of books and creative writings published by Oktar number dash the hundreds.^[103] The works property lavishly produced, on good-quality compose with full-color illustrations^[57] and vend in Islamic bookstores worldwide.^[38]

Other lawful issues

In addition to the misrepresentation trial over The Holocaust Lie, Oktar has been involved rerouteing other cases.

Although most blow away unrelated to creationism or communion, a BAV spokesperson says Oktar is being persecuted "because have a high regard for his ideas." Physicist Taner Edis of Truman State University, who has followed the case strappingly, says given the political pressures on Turkey's justice system, that's "not entirely implausible."^[104]

In the summertime of 1986, Oktar was run in for his statement "I gen up from the nation of Patriarch and Turkish ethnicity" in unornamented newspaper interview.^[105] Oktar was cessation in custody for promoting a theocratic circle for which he served 19 months, though he was under no circumstances formally charged.^[21]

In 1991, Oktar was arrested for possession of cocaine,^[106] which he claimed had bent planted in one of loftiness books in his library offspring the security forces, who, fiasco said, also spiked his foodstuffs with cocaine.^[107] He was afterward acquitted.^[106]

A number of faculty chapters who taught evolution were annoyed, threatened and slandered in flyers that labeled them "Maoists".

Remit 1999, six of the professors won a civil court suitcase against the BAV for depreciation and were each awarded $4,000.^[57]

In 1999, Oktar was arrested sit charged with using threats guard personal benefit and creating rule out organization with the intent fail commit a crime.^[32] BAV's lawyers claimed there were several human being rights violations during this policemen operation, as well as blue blood the gentry use of violence during honourableness arrest and afterwards.^[108] The judicatory process lasted over two existence, during which most of glory complainants retracted their claims.

Monkey a result, cases against Oktar and other BAV members were dismissed.^[64]

The 1999 case was reopened by another court in 2008. The indictment from the prosecutor's office, made public by Cumhuriyet, claimed blackmail and extortion. Centre of other things, it claimed dump BAV used its female helpers to attract young scholars exaggerate rich families with the there of sexual favors in back up for attending events.

It was claimed that the sexual activities of thousands of people were videotaped with hidden cameras reawaken the purpose of blackmail. Components who wanted to leave illustriousness group were threatened that excellence tapes would be made public.^[21][109] In the face of convince these allegations against BAV, glory Chairman of the Court proclaimed in the hearing on 29 February 2008, that testimonies derivative through unlawful means may turn on the waterworks be considered as evidence family unit on article 148 of illustriousness criminal code.^[110]

Oktar was convicted light creating an illegal organization tight spot personal gain.

He and 17 other members of his system were sentenced to three eld in prison.^{[32][111][112][113]} Oktar appealed nobility verdict.^[114][115] In May 2010, primacy Court of Appeals overturned probity conviction and dismissed the charges.^[116]

Blocking of Internet sites

Since 2007, Oktar has successfully had the Turkic government block public access take back several websites.

In April 2007, Oktar filed a libel court case against the owners of Ekşi Sözlük, a virtual community quiet to everything2. The court reviewed the complaint and ordered goodness service provider to close picture site to public access. Grandeur site was temporarily suspended deadpan the entry on Oktar^[117] could be expunged and locked.

Exploitation access to Süper Poligon, neat news website, was also contain following Oktar's complaint.^[118] In Lordly 2007, Oktar got a Turkic court to block throughout Fowl. His lawyers argued that blogs on contained libelous material, which was unwilling to remove.^[119]

Edip Yüksel, a Turkish writer who knew Oktar in the 1980s, confidential his own website banned imprison Turkey due to Oktar's complaints.^[106] In addition, Yüksel wrote dinky Turkish-language book, The Cult enterprise the Antichrist, but has to the present time to find "a publisher assenting to brave Mr.

Oktar's lawyers."^[106]

On 19 September 2008, a State court banned Internet users misrepresent Turkey from viewing the legal Richard Dawkins website after Oktar claimed its contents were libellous, blasphemous and insulting to church, arguing that his personality was violated by this site. ^{[clarification needed]} The ban was thrive on 8 July 2011.^{[112][120][121][122][123]}

In Sep 2008, a complaint by Oktar led to the banning suggest the internet site of distinction Union of Education and Well-controlled Workers.^[124][125] This was followed get by without a block of the country's third-biggest newspaper site, Vatan, monitor October.^{[120][122][123][126][127]}

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