A child who grew up inside the cult speaks out: Every 15 days I was forcibly put through the 'turnstile' while someone watched

Ersin Eroğlu- 12punto.com.tr

"Everything was carried out in great secrecy."

A sentence we often hear after raids on certain groups... But is that really true?

In the age of communication, can everything truly be conducted in great secrecy?

Does the extent to which communication capabilities have advanced not also increase the power and capabilities of states, just as much as individual freedoms?

Or is it that political parties which held state authority during their time in power simply did not want action taken against the groups they were affiliated with?

FETÖ, Adnan Oktar, the Furkancılar, and others...

These are, in fact, the subject of a different article!

I have in my hands a book written by journalist İpek Özbey titled 'DRAGOS-Furkan Sezer Anlatıyor'. Published by Kırmızı Kitap Yayınları, the story of a child born inside the organisation catches my attention.

'THEY SEPARATED ME FROM MY MOTHER AND FATHER WHEN I WAS A CHILD'

Child A., who grew up inside the organisation, notes that his mother and father met within the organisation and recounts what followed:

"I was born into this organisation in 1990. My father and mother were members of the organisation founded by Adnan Oktar. They had a direct relationship with Adnan Oktar. They met there. They got married. From the day I was born, I was connected to these individuals and the organisation. I learned and understood all of this when I grew up and began to make sense of things. Even though my father and mother were officially married, when I was one year old they were made to separate on Adnan Oktar's orders. They also separated me from my mother and father when I was a child. I never saw my mother and father together. I have no photographs with them. I grew up in houses belonging to the organisation, together with other organisation members. I may have lived in more than 30 houses. I never lived together with my mother. Because Adnan Oktar considered a child's contact with his mother to be shirk, he also banned me from seeing my mother. Up until this age, I have only seen my mother a few times. These meetings took place in a room and Adnan Oktar was always present with us. I did not live in the same place as my father either, but there was no objection to us meeting. I saw him at certain times."

'ADNAN OKTAR HAD ME LEFT IN THE FOREST'

Child A., who in his statement described how Adnan Oktar had beaten him repeatedly, recounted how he was left in a forest when he was 4–5 years old:

"I suffered greatly in my childhood because of this organisation. Adnan Oktar personally beat me many times. On one occasion, when I was around 4–5 years old, because I was a child and to teach me a lesson, Adnan Oktar had me left in a forest with a female organisation member. I stayed in the forested area for approximately 5–6 hours. The woman dropped me off there by car and left. I had run after the car. I was very frightened. After I finished middle school, Adnan Oktar did not send me to high school — he ended my education. During this period he personally took an interest in me. He had dominance over me. At one point he had even banned the female organisation members living in the house where I stayed from speaking to me. Because of this, I was unable to speak to anyone for about 3 months. After middle school he did not send me to high school either. My entire life was spent in the organisation's house in Kandilli. They placed me in a cabin in the upper garden that had 5–6 beds inside. Besides me, adult men like me also stayed there. Apart from the cabin where I stayed, there were several more similar cabins in the same villa garden. Men like us stayed in those as well. In the main villa, Adnan Oktar lived together with the female organisation members. This group of women who stayed there was called the 'Bacılar' [Sisters] group. We were strictly forbidden from meeting or speaking with this group, and my mother was one of them. The men who stayed there like me were called the 'Kardeşler' [Brothers] group."

THE ORDER: 'LET'S PUT HIM THROUGH THE TURNSTILE TOGETHER WITH HIS FATHER'

Child A. stated that on Adnan Oktar's orders he was forcibly made to be with a woman named Aslı, and that a third person watched during these encounters:

"When I was 15–16 years old, Adnan Oktar wanted me to enter the turnstile system. On Adnan Oktar's orders, I was taken by an organisation member named Tolga Çetiner to an apartment rented in the name of organisation member Turgut Aksu in Kadıköy Kalamış. There, again in accordance with Adnan Oktar's orders, I was forcibly made to have sexual relations with a woman named Aslı. During this time, Tolga Çetiner was also watching us. After the encounter, when I returned to the villa where I was staying, Adnan Oktar asked me to describe the encounter. And I did. Beyond that, Adnan Oktar would regularly ask me and the other young organisation members how many times a day we masturbated. I could never make sense of that. On one occasion, Adnan Oktar gave the order: 'Let's put him through the turnstile together with his father.' My father never asked me any question requiring personal intimacy, because we never had that kind of relationship. It wasn't like a typical father-son relationship — since the people in the community were my only companions, he was just like any other person from that community to me. My relationship with my father was always like that. On one occasion Adnan Oktar had given the order for me to 'go through the turnstile together with my father.' Going through the turnstile continued every 15 days throughout the time I stayed in the organisation. In every encounter there was always at least one other person in the room watching. Sometimes there could be two. In the organisation these people were called witnesses. Each time it continued with different women. Adnan Oktar would say that vaginal sex was haram, and that anal and oral sex were halal. For this reason, vaginal intercourse was forbidden in the organisation; relations were conducted only anally. They made me do the same. In the organisation, the sexual needs of the male members of the Brothers group were met through these women, by means of anal intercourse, again in houses belonging to the organisation. These women were not direct organisation members. They were referred to as the girls of the turnstile. At the head of these women were supervisors called mihmandar. Male organisation members in need would call these mihmandars and speak in code saying they wanted to make a programme, and the encounter would be arranged. No money or anything else was given in exchange for the encounters. Meeting with these women outside of the encounters was forbidden."

Child A., who grew up inside the organisation, recounted all of this, and those taking his statement put it on record. Police Chief Furkan Sezer, who went after the organisation, faced one ordeal after another.

The question must now be asked again:

Was it truly because everything was conducted in great secrecy that no action was taken against the organisation?

Journalist İpek Özbey, with her book 'DRAGOS-Furkan Sezer Anlatıyor', brings to light the truths that were covered up. Perhaps it will serve as a lesson, so that what we lived through yesterday will not be repeated tomorrow. So that other children tomorrow will not go through what child A., who grew up in the organisation, went through.

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