Adnan Oktar has been relaying his instructions outside via letters

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Terror and Organized Crime Investigation Bureau has completed its investigation into the decoding of the current structure and activities of the Adnan Oktar organized crime group. 

The 352-page indictment prepared as a result of the investigation includes 20 suspects. 

INSTRUCTIONS ARE RELAYED OUTSIDE

The indictment, which notes that Adnan Oktar, who is recognized by court rulings as the leader of an armed criminal organization, remains in prison and has continued his organizational activities during this period, states that Oktar has been trying to keep the organization alive, particularly through his lawyers and other organization leaders Meltem Daban and Ferhunde Eda Babuna, and has ensured that his instructions are spread outside the prison. 

The indictment emphasizes that while doing this, Oktar engaged in activities to create public opinion that the trial was a setup and to gain political lobby support, particularly through other organization leaders. It also provides information that Oktar, who communicates with organization members who were convicted in the main case and are in prison via letters and lawyers, has been trying to prevent organization members from benefiting from effective remorse laws. 

THE GOAL IS TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS

The indictment also states that Adnan Oktar is trying to maintain his influence over organization members both inside and outside, pointing out that during his time in prison, he held meetings under the guise of "legal assistance" with approximately 200 lawyers in a short period of 15 days, which is inconsistent with the normal flow of events. 

The indictment, which includes the statement, "In these meetings, he aimed to recruit members to the organization and tried to direct organizational attitudes and behaviors outside the prison by taking advantage of the legal profession, which is free to enter and exit prisons within legal limits. As a result of the determination of this issue, restrictions were imposed on the suspect's lawyer meetings," also mentions that Oktar aimed to recruit new members to replace those who were tried and exposed, in addition to keeping the organization alive, and tried to relay his instructions through his lawyers, which is the easiest way. 

The indictment states that Adnan Oktar exerted pressure through his lawyer members regarding people in prison writing letters to him, giving the impression that the trial was baseless, and emphasizes that Oktar tried to prove to those in the organization that they had established a bond of affection rather than organizational loyalty. 

OKTAR DOES NOT UNDERTAKE ALL PLANNING ALONE

The indictment notes that suspect Oktar manages the organization with organization member suspects Meltem Daban and Ferhunde Eda Babuna, who were previously sentenced, so as not to shoulder all the planning and organization alone in the new structure of the organization. It is alleged that he shared various notes with organization members through his lawyers, especially regarding the concept of Mahdiism, which is the starting point of the organization, and thus continued the organization's pressure. 

The indictment includes the statement, "Considering all these actions, it is obvious that suspect Adnan Oktar, who has taken a high position within the organization's hierarchy since the date of the legal and factual interruption after the indictment, giving orders and instructions to organization members, directing and managing them, ensuring the division of labor within the organization, and acting like a coordinator, should be classified as an organization leader." 

The activities of the organization during the new restructuring process are described in the indictment under 6 headings: "the organization's current structure and activities," "people involved in the current structure," "the organization's control from prison and lawyer structure," "organizational communication in the current structure," "organizational measures in organizational communication," and "the organization's propaganda and disinformation activities." 

The indictment explains that following the detention of many people, including the organization leader, managers, and members, regarding the organization's current structure and activities, the organization determined new strategies according to the current situation and engaged in current restructuring activities. It assesses that the people involved in the current structure mainly consist of organization members released from prison and people affiliated with the organization who have not yet been processed, but that the organization also has initiatives to reach its goal of acquiring new members. 

The indictment, which also describes the control from prison and the lawyer structure, states that non-detained people carrying out organizational activities in the current structure directly obtain handwritten instructions from the organization leader and managers through the lawyer structure in the organization and carry out their activities in accordance with this organizational hierarchy. 

COMMUNICATION THROUGH LAWYERS

Pointing out that the meetings held with the organization leader and managers in numbers and durations contrary to the normal flow of life regarding the provision of organizational communication are shown under the motif of lawyer-client meetings, the indictment claims that this method was actually applied with a covert organizational communication strategy to convey the handwritten instructions of the organization leader and managers to organization members not in prison. 

The indictment reports that the handwritten instructions obtained through this method were delivered to the person in charge of the so-called legal unit to be collected in a single center and archived, thus ensuring organizational communication between the prison and the outside through the organization's lawyer structure. It is noted that the letters, notes, and documents sent to Adnan Oktar found in lawyer Sinem Mollahasanoğlu's law office on December 29, 2022, were compared with the information, documents, and instructions in the folder prepared in the name of the main case complainant Serra Muhammed Valipour, and it was understood that they confirmed that the instructions were fulfilled. 

INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED FROM LAWYERS ARE IMPLEMENTED AND REPORTED BACK TO OKTAR

The indictment also states that there was a communication network established between 2019 and 2020 via e-mail addresses within the folders, and that the people involved in this communication network called themselves the "Istanbul/Legal Group" and referred to Oktar as the "client" or "author." 

The indictment, which underlines that the group is familiar with the content of the trial file, states that the instructions received from Oktar through the lawyers who went to visit were kept as written records in the form of notes, and each instruction was meticulously fulfilled and followed by the legal group, and feedback was given to Oktar. 

The indictment, which provides information that the defendants were made to meet with the organization's lawyers and thus dominance was established over the defendants, argues that statements were taken from each of the defendants in writing through lawyers, studies were carried out on the defendants' statements with the allegations in the indictment, and contradictory and problematic parts were corrected. 

The indictment also states that with the dominance and control mechanism established over the defendants, the defenses were shaped and dictated in line with common logical constructs, and they were instructed to express the memorized defenses during the court interrogation, and that the same method was applied in the written defenses submitted to the court file. 

TO PREVENT DEFENDANTS FROM BREAKING AWAY FROM THE ORGANIZATION...

The indictment emphasizes that the defenses were not allowed to be based on the free-willed statements of the defendants and that the defendants on trial acted with organizational loyalty at every stage with this acceptance. It also explains that apart from this consensual dominance established over the defendants regarding the defenses, all their needs in prison were followed and met with notes taken from the defendants through the lawyers who went to visit. 

It is noted that by taking care of the defendants' psychological states, nutrition, clothing and personal style, and health, attempts were made to prevent them from breaking away from the organization, and that by making suggestions and taking measures to ensure the continuation of their togetherness, the organization's morale and motivation were kept alive, and the defendants were allowed to have their needs met by the organization with organizational loyalty. It is also explained that especially and importantly, every defendant was encouraged and suggested to write letters to both Oktar and each other, that those who did not write letters were followed, that attempts were made to prevent breaking away from the organization with letters, and that these letters were kept to be used as evidence in the future. 

MAHDIISM IS KEPT ON THE AGENDA ON SOCIAL MEDIA

The indictment, which states that Adnan Oktar made narrations and suggestions to organization members through his lawyers who came to visit, with many religious narrations, religious analogies, references to verses and hadiths, and narrations about the Mahdi, the Antichrist, and the end times, includes the following statements: "It has been understood that during his meeting, Oktar tried to prove the cause of political events and natural events on the agenda of Turkey and the world by linking them to his own imprisonment with religious references, and that he conveyed and suggested this to organization members inside and outside, and made references to the concept of Mahdiism with this, and gave instructions to keep Mahdiism on the agenda on social media." 

The indictment also states that the suspects, in line with the instructions, carried out propaganda using social media to invalidate the "armed criminal organization" accusation leveled against the organization, that they engaged in very intense activities to create perception, and that they acted with a common discourse in line with the "total denial" decision regarding sexual crime allegations in accordance with Adnan Oktar's instructions. 

The indictment explains that intense work was carried out regarding the allegations of Serra Muhammed Valipour, one of the complainants in the main case, again in line with Oktar's instructions, and that work was done on how her mother, Dilek Çelikten, would testify. 

COMMUNICATIONS ARE MADE VIA E-MAIL

The indictment points out that the organization's communication tactic outside the prison was carried out via e-mails by applying organizational measures sensitive to tracking, and shows that the reason for establishing communication in this way was that tracking could not be provided in accordance with the relevant articles of the Criminal Procedure Code (CMK) and that the content of the e-mails could not be accessed due to servers located abroad. 

The indictment was accepted by the high criminal court to which it was sent. The defendants will appear before the judge in the coming days. 

REQUESTED SENTENCES

In the indictment, it was requested that suspects Adnan Oktar, Meltem Daban, and Ferhunde Eda Babuna be sentenced to 5 to 12 years in prison for the crime of "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime." It was also requested that these individuals be punished as perpetrators for all crimes committed by organization members within the framework of the organization's activities in accordance with the relevant article of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). 

In the indictment, where it was requested that Adnan Oktar, Meltem Daban, and Ferhunde Eda Babuna be sentenced to 10.5 to 31.5 years in prison for the crime of "making propaganda for the organization or its purpose" in this context, there was also a request for the other 17 defendants to be sentenced to prison at different rates for crimes such as "being a member of an organization established for the purpose of committing a crime," "aiding the organization," and "making propaganda for the organization or its purpose."