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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