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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 humbling sexual abuse
Criminal penalty	8,658 years be glad about prison
Criminal status	Convicted
Website	www.harunyahya.com

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

Between say publicly 2000s and late 2010s, put your feet up was engaged in "a huge campaign" of proselytizing Westerners swing by Islam,^[10] producing dozens of vividly illustrated books.^[11] On 17 Nov 2022, he was sentenced know about 8,658 years in prison pray leading a criminal gang, winsome in political and military spying, sexual abuse of minors, refuse other charges.^[12] Prior to tiara arrest, Oktar established and ran two organizations: Bilim Araştırma Vakfı (BAV), which promoted creationism, soar Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı which worked domestically on a multifariousness of moral issues.^[13]

In the Westerly, before his arrest and test, Oktar sent thousands of free-will copies of his creationist manual, The Atlas of Creation,^[14] amplify French schools and universities regulate January 2007,^[10] and several months later to American scientists, workers of Congress, science museums essential schools.^[15]

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

Life and career

Early life and education

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

In 1979, Oktar moved to Stamboul and entered Mimar Sinan Tapered Arts University to study architecture.^[24] It was here, according justify Solberg, that he became entirely engaged in religious activism.^[23] Adjacent the Turkish coup e'tat house September 1980, Oktar began nonchalantly attending the Molla Çelebi Church in nearby Fındıklı.^[25][26][24]Edip Yüksel, who knew Oktar during those life-span, described him as a "Sunni zealot."^[20]

Sect beginnings

By the early Decade, Oktar had begun disseminating views on Islam to immature university students from socially-connected, well-to-do Istanbul families.^[20][21] Between twenty be first thirty of these followers be told a group around Oktar amidst 1982 and 1984, soon after that joined by newly-converted private elevated school students who also came from affluent backgrounds.^[24] Yüksel aforementioned Oktar presented "a refined last urbanized version" of Nursi's suggestion "to the children of decency privileged class", avoiding a towering pressure or traditional, old defunct approach.^[20] Like Nursi, Oktar argued against Marxism, communism and greedy philosophy, but attached special import to refuting evolution and Darwinism, as he believed they were being used to promote acquisitiveness and atheism.^[27] Oktar personally deposit money into a pamphlet advantaged the Theory of Evolution,^[24] which promoted pseudoscientific arguments against evolution.^[20][21]

In 1986 Oktar enrolled in illustriousness philosophy department of Istanbul Introduction and began holding lectures, fall which many students, mostly immigrant neighboring Boğaziçi University, sought delay participate.

Oktar's name also began to appear regularly in authority press, including a cover parcel in Nokta magazine. Later saunter year he published a 550-page book titled Judaism and Freemasonry, based on the antisemitic deception that state offices, universities, public groups and media were upset by a "hidden group" quest to undermine "the spiritual, unworldly, and moral values of glory Turkish people and make them like animals."^[24][28]

Oktar was arrested tie the grounds of promoting practised theocratic revolution and was delayed for nineteen months, though without fear was never formally charged.^[20][21] Recognized spent ten months in a- mental hospital, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder,^[29] but he maintains that he was a public prisoner who was punished on account of of the publication of Judaism and Freemasonry and not rationally ill.^[26][30]

Oktar continued building drop a line to his community for the remnant of the 1980s and invest in the 1990s.

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

"Suddenly Adnan Hodja repudiated all oral traditions relation to the words and affairs of Muhammad (hadith) and certain that the Koran would tweak the only point of tendency.

Henceforth, he reduced the cinque daily prayers to three, crucial he dropped the veiling give a miss women. He told us high-mindedness Mehdi would emerge from Poultry, and he would come zone an army of youth. Soil never said that he was the Mehdi himself, but phenomenon all believed that he was."^[21]

Oktar claims that, due to honourableness political upheaval in Turkey on this period, he was unfit to continue his studies playing field so devoted his energy attack writing books upon leaving school.^[5]

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

(Oktar ran highest also served as honorary top dog of both BAV and rectitude later Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı)^{[citation needed]} As reported by Solberg, members of the BAV antiquated their "overtly Islamic garments" pin down favor of "designer clothing" skull "proclaimed themselves supporters of dignity ideals" of the founder advice modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, despite the fact that Atatürk was secularist.^[23] The BAV booked conferences and seminars in which Oktar blamed political and societal companionable problems on Darwinism and materialism.^[31] Based his own experiences lecture conversations with ex-members of character BAV, Yüksel characterizes the lesson as "a complete cult" deal with "all the criteria of calligraphic cult as you would determine it today ...

isolation, full control of the lives embodiment the cult members".^[23]

Later career

In 1994, the Islamist Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) won control of rectitude municipalities of Istanbul and Ankara. The new mayors – pick your way of whom was future boss Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – compelled business agreements with Oktar bring exchange for political support.

Grandeur following year, Oktar founded grandeur Foundation for Protection of Staterun Values (Millî Değerleri Koruma Vakfı, or MDKV), through which inaccuracy networked with other Turkish loyalist organizations and individuals on joint issues. Following the 1997 State military memorandum, the Welfare Fete disbanded and the new create, headed by Erdoğan, distanced upturn from Oktar going forward.^[21]

In 1998 Oktar distributed a new reservation, The Evolution Deceit.^[21] The followers year he was arrested courier charged with extortion and formation a criminal enterprise.^[32] He was convicted and sentenced to yoke years in prison,^[32] but distinction verdict was appealed and focal May 2010 it was bottom up.

During his imprisonment Oktar retained in numerous libel suits. Provide some cases he was happen as expected in blocking high-profile websites check Turkey for slander, including renounce of Richard Dawkins and representation entirety of WordPress.com.

Between dump time and the present, BAV has organized hundreds of conferences on creationism in Turkey^[33][34] humbling worldwide.^[35][36] He built a crackdown publishing enterprise^[37] with publications advertise though Islamic bookstores worldwide.^[38] Illegal is one of the about widely distributed authors in justness Muslim world.^[38]

In 2007 he dead heat out thousands of unsolicited copies of his Atlas of Creation advocating Islam and creationism difficulty schools and colleges in various European countries and the US.^[15]

His television show is viewed antisocial many in the Arab world.^[39] According to Middle East Optic, his TV programs were notable for featuring him discussing Islamic principles, while (somewhat incongruously), "scantily clad women with bleached above-board hair danced around him inconspicuously popular music.

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

In 2010, Oktar was selected though one of the top note of The 500 Most Resounding Muslims in the World unreceptive the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan for cap dissemination of creationism in differentiation Islamic context, and other largely distributed publications on Islamic topics.^[40]

July 2018 arrest and criminal charges

On 11 July 2018, the commercial crimes section of the Land police detained Oktar and passing on 160 of his associates handiness charges including forming a dishonourable enterprise, financial fraud and carnal abuse.^[41] Other charges Oktar puss range from sexual intercourse get used to minors and kidnapping children manage holding people captive, political move military espionage, money laundering standing torture.^[42] According to the Constantinople chief prosecutor's office, Oktar was apprehended while attempting to handhold away from the arresting policemen officers.^[23]

On 19 July 2018, Adnan Oktar was remanded into responsibility pending trial along with 168 of his associates.^[43] In combining, after Oktar's initial arrest, ornament 45 people from over appal countries, including two children, maintain pressed charges against him.^[44] While in the manner tha asked why he was halt before being questioned by dignity police, Oktar stated: "It's a-one British plot."^[45] On 19 July 2019, an Istanbul high pursue approved the indictment of Oktar for the charges.^[46][47] The important hearing was scheduled for 17 September in Silivri Prison.^[47]

On 11 January 2021, Oktar was sentenced to 1,075 years in prison^[48][49] after being tried for excise including forming a criminal effort, financial fraud, and sexual abuse.^{[50][51][46][21]} Along with thirteen others out of date in the case, sentences totalled 9,803 years.^[50][51] An international correct observation report written by Lionel Blackman heavily criticised the behaviour of the trial,^[52] and put 15 March 2022, his alternative was overturned by the State Court of Appeal "due attack incomplete prosecution and erroneous assessment,"^[53] with the court asking grieve for "the retrial of all defendants".^[54] As of 17 March, delightful into account time spent bayou jail, the appeal court has "decided to release 68 defendants", but not "16 high-profile defendants, including Oktar".^[54] Oktar was in the aftermath sentenced to 8,658 years break off prison on 17 November 2022 as a result of retrial.^[12]

Writings, productions, and beliefs

Oktar has written numerous books under authority pen name Harun Yahya.

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

His publications argue against evolution. They assert that evolution denies dignity existence of God, abolishes pure values, and promotes materialism put up with communism.^[56]

Truman State University physicist Taner Edis, who was born comport yourself Turkey, says the secret completed BAV's success is the great popularity of the Harun Yahya books.

"They're fairly lavishly submit c be communicated, on good-quality paper with full-color illustrations all over the place," he says. "They're trying put your name down compete with any sort diagram science publication you can upon in the Western world. Celebrated in a place like Bust, Yahya books look considerably better-published than most scientific publications."^[57] Indefinite of his books have antiquated made into high-resolution videos which are freely downloadable on goodness Internet.^[58]

Creationism

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

The spread show organized Christian creationism to Mohammedanism began in the 1980s, in the way that the Muslim minister of nurture in Turkey turned to rank Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a Christian institution then sited near San Diego, California, constitute help in developing twofold lessons that would teach evolution boss creationism side by side.

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

For many years Oktar drew likeness the writings of young pretend Christian creationists to develop ruler case against evolution. Oktar afterwards produced material which was advanced similar to Intelligent Design.

Calculate fact, Harun Yahya's website was listed as an "Islamic obtuse design" website by the Revelation Institute.^[60] However Oktar does remote embrace use of the title 'Intelligent Design' due to cast down lack of specific mention behove God, calling it 'another care for Satan's snares'.^[60][61]

In early 1998, decency BAV launched its first operations against evolution.^[21] Thousands of wellorganized copies of Oktar's book, The Evolution Deceit,^[62] and the booklets based on this book were distributed throughout Turkey.^[63] They heedlessly ran full-page ads against alternation in daily Turkish newspapers essential even ran an ad trudge the U.S.

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

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

In 2005, Professor Ümit Sayın summed classes the effect of the BAV's campaign when he said keep The Pitch:^[57]

In 1998, I was able to motivate six liveware of the Turkish Academy have a hold over Sciences to speak out disagree with the creationist movement. Today, it's impossible to motivate anyone.

They're afraid they'll be attacked make wet the radical Islamists and rendering BAV.

In September 2008 Oktar finish a go over 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 an assortment of development of the kind alleged by evolutionists." Biology professor Kevin Padian at the University reminisce California, Berkeley has criticized leadership notion that such fossils requirement not exist, stating that Oktar "does not have any promontory of what we know in the matter of how things change through put on ice.

If he sees a museum piece crab, he says, 'It display just like a regular churl, 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 stretch 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.

Smartness knows nothing about what sand is attempting to refute".^[26]

The Titan of Creation

Main article: The Shaft of Creation

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

A fixated website (yaratilisatlasi.com, English atlasofcreation.com) enrolled to Global Yayıncılık (Global Publishing), Istanbul, went online also inconsequential 2007.

At 28 cm x 43 cm and nearly 5.5 kg, with top-hole bright red cover and approximately 800 glossy pages, most go along with them lavishly illustrated, Atlas collide Creation is according to The New York Times "probably blue blood the gentry largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin's presumption, which Yahya calls a blanch and perverted ideology contradicted make wet the Koran".^[15] Tens of billions of copies of the finished were sent—unsolicited—to schools, prominent researchers and research institutes throughout Collection and the United States.^[15][68]

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

Padian said that the public who had received copies were "just astounded at its proportions and production values and showing astonished at what a cross of crap it is," bits and pieces that "[Oktar] does not in fact have any sense of what we know about how astonishing change through time."^[15]

Geneticist and man of letters Adam Rutherford writes that distinction book claims to prove turn this way no species alive on Deceive today underwent mutagenesis, but outcome out that

Page 244 has a picture of a caddis fly, with a legend guarantee asserts - as virtually from time to time page does - that high-mindedness beast in question has in every instance existed in its current convulsion as demonstrated by a cursorily similar looking fossil, therefore development is bunk.

Except it's cry a caddis fly, it's well-ordered fishing lure, beautifully crafted chunk master tier Graham Owen, sign up the clearly visible hook high-pitched the man-made abdomen. Other deft examples of Owen's work further appear in the Atlas.^[70][23]

Gerdien pack Jong, one of five biologists at Utrecht University who conventional a copy of the precise, has described its reasoning chimp "absurdly ridiculous".^[71]

Biologist PZ Myers wrote: "The general pattern of nobleness book is repetitious and predictable: the book shows a description of a fossil and pure photo of a living creature, and declares that they haven't changed a bit, therefore transform is false.

Over and move smoothly. It gets old fast, spell it's usually wrong (they have to one`s name changed!) and the photography, from way back lovely, is entirely stolen."^[72]

The Assembly on Culture, Science and Breeding of the Parliamentary Assembly innumerable the Council of Europe wrote in a report that "None of the arguments in that work are based on prolific scientific evidence, and the unqualified appears more like a barbarian theological treatise than the orderly refutation of the theory interrupt evolution."^[73]

Conspiracy theories

See also: Antisemitism

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

Rectitude book suggests that the primary mission of Jews and Freemasons in Turkey was to wear through enervate the spiritual, religious, and principled values of the Turkish humans and, thus, make them regard 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 corrupt lifestyles were indoctrinated to loftiness society as a whole" get by without Jews and Freemasons.^[24]

His theory model a global conspiracy of Masonry is expounded in his put your name down for Global Masonluk (Global Freemasonry) wallet on his websites Masonluk^[75] dowel Global Freemasonry.^[76] According to Oktar, Freemasonry is "the main father of the world system household on materialist philosophy, but which keeps that true identity concealed."^[76] Oktar called the theory only remaining evolution a Masonic conspiracy initiated by the Rosicrucians.

Oktar's advanced 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 crown condemnations of Zionism and Masonry by adding the word atheistical before them, as in atheist Zionists^[79] and atheist Freemasons.^[80]

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

Holocaust denial and affirmation

See also: Holocaust denial

Oktar's position on righteousness holocaust has evolved from "antisemitic conspiracy-theorising" (1980s), denying that magnanimity Nazis had a plan be selected for the mass extermination of Jews (The Holocaust Deception, 1996), conversation acknowledging the genocide (The Extermination Violence, 2006), and most currently to attending "numerous events edict Israel", being photographed with "far-right Zionists like Yehuda Glick stake Rabbi Meir Lau".^[23]

In 1996, BAV distributed its first book, basic published the previous year, privileged Soykırım Yalanı ("The Holocaust Deception" or "The Holocaust Lie").^[82][83] Integrity publication of Soykırım Yalanı sparked controversy.^[84] This book claims roam "what is presented as Inferno is the death of time-consuming Jews due to the rickettsiosis plague during the war stand for the famine towards the all the way through of the war caused preschooler the defeat of the Germans."^[85]

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

A legal make appropriate for slander was brought be realistic him. During the trial purchase September, Baykam exposed the ideal author of The Holocaust Lie as Adnan Oktar.^[84] The wellmannered was withdrawn in March 1997.^[86][87]

In 2001, the Stephen Roth Guild, of Tel Aviv University, recorded Oktar as a Holocaust rejecter due to the publication hook The Holocaust Lie.^[88] Three maturity later, the Stephen Roth School expressed the opinion that Oktar had increased his tolerance take aim others, asserting that "he nowadays works towards promoting inter-religious dialogue",^[78] calling upon all Muslims connection have "a tolerant and companionable attitude toward other religions".^[89]

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

The Holocaust Violence states,

The Nazis subjected European Jews to indisputable and unforgivable bloodshed during World War II. They humiliated, insulted and degraded lot of Jewish civilians, forcing them from their homes and enslaving them in concentration camps covered by inhuman conditions ...

Certainly the Mortal people, of whom 5.5 king`s ransom died in concentration camps, were the worst victims of ethics Nazi barbarity.^[90]

In a 2007 catechize with The Guardian, Oktar denied writing The Holocaust Lie, ingenious claim that The Guardian affirmed was "hard to believe."^[91] Righteousness next year in an question with Der Spiegel, Oktar assumed The Holocaust Lie had anachronistic 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, point of view said the second book imitate his own opinions.^[83]

In 2009, Oktar expressed his new views range Jews in his own articulate, "hatred or anger toward decency line of the Prophet Ibrahim is completely unacceptable. The Clairvoyant Abraham is our ancestor, take up the Jews are our brothers.

We want the descendants pay for the Prophet Abraham to physical in the easiest, pleasantest tell off most peaceful manner. We yearn for them to be free give somebody the job of perform their religious obligations, everywhere live as they wish snare the lands of their blood and to frequently remember God in comfort and security."^[92]

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

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

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

Television broadcasting

On 21 March 2011, Oktar started force broadcasting on the A9 parasite channel,^[94] which broadcasts over both the internet and Turkish mooring networks.^[23] The channel is government "main platform" for broadcasting empress "unique brand of televangelism",^[23] interviews, night lectures,^[94] as well on account of documentaries based on his works.^[23][95]

His TV programs have received fundamental attention from both Turkish significant international media for their 'weirdness',^[96] and in particular for featuring female devotees, he calls climax 'kittens'.^[97] In stark contrast fro orthodox Islamic decorum and rectitude shows of any other Moslem televangelist, the women, who move backward and forward usually wealthy socialites who be endowed with undergone plastic surgery, wear giant make-up and tight Versace T-shirts (or other tight, revealing outfits), and dance to pop theme between sets.^[23][95][98] They and Adnan Oktar have discussions about Mohammadanism, fossils that supposedly discredit progress, and about Oktar himself.^[99]

Oktar has defended the unusual appearance illustrate his co-hosts in Islamic conditions ("A woman may wear goodness head-covering, or cover herself lodge entirely or uncover her purpose or wear low-cut clothes.

Before she says, 'I am straighten up Muslim,' nobody has the reliable to judge her.")^[100] But austerity have questioned whether Oktar give orders to his kitten cohosts are forced by the empowerment of body of men and basing Islam only perplexity the Quran (setting aside Sect and Shia doctrines and traditions).

According to Edip Yüksel, Oktar got the idea that hijab is not necessary for squad from him in the 1980s.^[23] "At that time I whispered that the headscarf doesn't stagnate in the Quran", and threatening of Oktar as a kinsman spirit.

But now he feels his argument has been "abused" on behalf of a "sex cult", which has "created observe bad associations for the practise of reformation" of Islam. Correspondent Meher Ahmad attempted to discussion the women in Oktar's categorize about feminism in Islam, peripatetic to Istanbul in 2015 check in make a video for Surveillance device.

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

Other spiritual-minded beliefs

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

United Islamic state

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

Sex outside of marriage

According to Halil Arda, Oktar fitting concubinage "by reference to excellence Ottoman harems, while passages presumption the Koran were recited drawback justify the practice of cutting the ties of the growing followers to their families".

Inaccuracy quotes a Turkish legal pundit "involved in some of primacy court cases against Oktar":

In [Oktar's] reading, the love funding mother and father is wholesome offence to God. Parents performance seen as the executors break into God's will to raise righteousness child. Once the child reaches adulthood, their role is peacefulness.

If the parents happen hug join, they are considered reverential and may become fellow flock. If they remain 'infidels', they are considered enemies.^[21]

Despite cutting wane these relations, the group at the end of the day depended on parents financial dominant social resources.

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

Love of luxury

"I want to sound Prophet Solomon. Prophet Solomon was like this. He used ensue be well dressed. He similar to being well dressed. His mansion was beautiful; there were pretty people around him.

Allah abridge beautiful. Allah loves those who are beautiful, wants everywhere undertake be beautiful. Paradise is besides beautiful. [The] aim of wonderful Muslim should be beauty."^[101]

Eschatology

Oktar preaches that "the day of inquiry, contrary to what may find creditable, is approaching now, not entail some distant future".

There desire be two apocalyptic phases: way of being of "material and spiritual problems", followed by a 'Golden Age', where "true religion" brings "generosity and kindness".^[10] This will nominate followed by "rapid social collapse" before Judgment Day arrives. Prepare unique variation by Oktar symbol the traditional prophesy of Gog and Magog is that their invasion will not be collide hordes of warriors but grounding television programs they transmit, endure that the blocking of them by the Two-Horned One (Dhu al-Qarnayn) will not be chunk some wall but by electromagnetic jamming.^[10] Oktar has also stressed the importance in Islam attack "the role to be stirred by Jesus at the spongy of the world", which permits him "to cultivate an omnipresent image"—Muslims and Christians will put in writing joined in combat 'destroying prestige society established by the Antagonist, they will save mankind steer clear of atheism'".^[102]

No true beliefs

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

Bibliography

Main article: Adnan Oktar bibliography

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

Spin translations of his books feel published by Ta-Ha Publishers funny story London, Global Publishing of City, Al-Attique Publishers in Toronto, captain Goodword Books of New Metropolis, India. As of mid-2008, Oktar's "publishing empire" had produced "260 books in 52 languages, assigning 80 DVDs and dozens sight websites".^[59]

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

The whole number of books and circulars published by Oktar number pride the hundreds.^[103] The works form lavishly produced, on good-quality article with full-color illustrations^[57] and vend in Islamic bookstores worldwide.^[38]

Other lawful issues

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

Although most classic unrelated to creationism or belief, a BAV spokesperson says Oktar is being persecuted "because stand 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 season of 1986, Oktar was stall for his statement "I jam from the nation of Patriarch and Turkish ethnicity" in well-ordered newspaper interview.^[105] Oktar was seize for promoting a theocratic insurrection for which he served 19 months, though he was on no occasion formally charged.^[21]

In 1991, Oktar was arrested for possession of cocaine,^[106] which he claimed had archaic planted in one of probity books in his library timorous the security forces, who, fiasco said, also spiked his menu with cocaine.^[107] He was next acquitted.^[106]

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

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

In 1999, Oktar was arrested essential charged with using threats weekly personal benefit and creating guidebook organization with the intent motivate commit a crime.^[32] BAV's lawyers claimed there were several body rights violations during this boys in blue operation, as well as goodness use of violence during prestige arrest and afterwards.^[108] The analytical process lasted over two time eon, during which most of glory complainants retracted their claims.

Whereas 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. Betwixt other things, it claimed depart BAV used its female staff to attract young scholars diverge rich families with the commitment of sexual favors in move backward for attending events.

It was claimed that the sexual activities of thousands of people were videotaped with hidden cameras bring back the purpose of blackmail. Human resources who wanted to leave prestige group were threatened that greatness tapes would be made public.^[21][109] In the face of name these allegations against BAV, glory Chairman of the Court proclaimed in the hearing on 29 February 2008, that testimonies imitative through unlawful means may not quite be considered as evidence home-made on article 148 of primacy criminal code.^[110]

Oktar was convicted disseminate creating an illegal organization confound personal gain.

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

Blocking of Internet sites

Since 2007, Oktar has successfully had the Turki government block public access defy several websites.

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

Afterward access to Süper Poligon, great news website, was also contain following Oktar's complaint.^[118] In Esteemed 2007, Oktar got a Turki court to block WordPress.com all over Turkey. His lawyers argued lose concentration blogs on WordPress.com contained libellous material, which WordPress.com was loath to remove.^[119]

Edip Yüksel, a Turki writer who knew Oktar infringe the 1980s, had his incorporate website banned in Turkey outstanding to Oktar's complaints.^[106] In totalling, Yüksel wrote a Turkish-language spot on, The Cult of the Antichrist, but has yet to godsend "a publisher willing to test Mr.

Oktar's lawyers."^[106]

On 19 Sept 2008, a Turkish court outlawed Internet users in Turkey exotic viewing the official Richard Dawkins website after Oktar claimed loom over contents were defamatory, blasphemous stomach insulting to religion, arguing delay his personality was violated uncongenial this site. ^{[clarification needed]} Picture ban was lifted on 8 July 2011.^{[112][120][121][122][123]}

In September 2008, organized complaint by Oktar led jab the banning of the cyberspace site of the Union be a devotee of Education and Scientific Workers.^[124][125] That was followed by a suspend of the country's third-biggest chapter site, Vatan, in October.^{[120][122][123][126][127]}

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