The assets belonging to the Islamic cult of Adnan Oktar were transferred to the state, online news outlet T24 reported on Oct. 26. In July, the Court of Cassation upheld an 8,658-year prison sentence given to Islamic televangelist cult leader…[Continue Reading...]
Turkey’s top appeals court has upheld the conviction and 8,658-year prison sentence of Adnan Oktar, a controversial TV preacher, while also ordering the confiscation of his assets worth an estimated 5 billion lira. The Supreme Court of Appeals’ 1st Criminal…[Continue Reading...]
A Turkish televangelist known for hosting a TV show featuring young women whom he referred to as “kittens” was sentenced to 8,658 years in prison on Wednesday following a retrial in an Istanbul court, local media reported. Adnan Oktar, who’s…[Continue Reading...]
In the case related to the "religious marriage" of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom…[Continue Reading...]
Istanbul prosecutors are seeking up to 26 years in prison for an Islamist cult leader after his rape of a mentally disabled woman. The woman, known only by the initials E.D., committed suicide on March 23, just 15 days after…[Continue Reading...]
Nine children who lost their fathers in Turkey’s massive earthquakes of Feb. 6 have been separated from their mothers and placed in a boarding school with links to a Sunni sect based in İstanbul, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on…[Continue Reading...]
According to a lawsuit she filed, the marriage with a sect member was shown to her as a “child play.” H.K.G. alleged that she was sexually abused for years in her childhood, and she realized this fact when she was…[Continue Reading...]
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