Figures from the judiciary and bureaucracy have met with the Oktar group

The Adnan Oktar Armed Criminal Organization's current structure is the subject of a new indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Terror and Organized Crime Bureau.

The file, which lists Adnan Oktar as the leader and Meltem Daban and Ferhunde Eda Babuna as managers, focuses on the organization's current structure. The 352-page indictment, which includes the names of 20 suspects including Oktar, Daban, and Eda Babuna, states that the organization acted under the instructions of Adnan Oktar under the name of a “legal group.”

According to a report by Furkan Karabay from Gerçek Gündem; it is stated that the instructions in the notes written by Adnan Oktar, who is imprisoned in Erzurum, were conveyed to organization members outside through lawyers. It was noted that Oktar has met with hundreds of lawyers since his arrest in 2018.

The indictment underscores that Oktar meeting with 200 lawyers within 15 days in prison is contrary to the ordinary flow of life, and states that members managing the organization from the outside were looking for female lawyers to visit Oktar in prison.

OKTAR GROUP'S SECRET COMMUNICATION NETWORKS REVEALED

It is stated that Meltem Daban, Eda Babuna, and a person codenamed Feraye collected the handwritten instructions sent by Oktar through his lawyers. Furthermore, it was emphasized that Daban and Babuna conducted lobbying activities for political and judicial processes and organized campaigns in favor of Oktar on social media.

The indictment, which also includes the statements of an organization member who benefited from effective remorse provisions, states that individuals affiliated with Adnan Oktar used foreign phone numbers after the 2018 operation, abandoned the WhatsApp application, and used a program called Wickr, which cannot be geolocated from abroad, or communicated via e-mail.

The indictment also describes how Oktar, through other organization managers, engaged in activities to create public opinion that the trial was a setup and to gain political lobby support.

THE JUDICIAL WING OF THE ORGANIZATION

The organization member who benefited from effective remorse and shared the internal messages of the organization with the prosecutor's office pointed out in their statement given in July 2022 that the Oktar group had sources in the courthouses. The whistleblower explained that the organization had transmitted its messages in writing until 2022, but after learning that there was a new secret investigation file at the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and that new research was being conducted through this file, they began to continue their communications verbally.

The organization member stated that a book on the subject of a “setup” was prepared under the direction of Eda Babuna and Meltem Daban in line with Oktar's instructions. The whistleblower pointed out that the book was prepared with instructions claiming that some police officers in the Istanbul Police Financial Crimes Branch, who conducted the operation against Oktar, the prosecutors at the beginning of the investigation, and some complainants cooperated to set up the organization.

RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED WITH A PROSECUTOR WORKING AT ÇAĞLAYAN

The whistleblower, who described the Oktar group's connections in the judiciary and bureaucracy, alleged that organization members held “close and intense” meetings with İbrahim Çiçek, the Public Prosecutor responsible for the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office judicial repository.

The whistleblower said, “These meetings are mainly conducted by Eda Babuna and Meltem Daban. I even know that Prosecutor İbrahim Çiçek helped them a lot and provided convenience during the process of returning the seized digital materials.”

In the continuation of their statement, the organization member explained that they knew that Hüseyin Alpar Sayın and Burak Temiz, who were released after the Istanbul Regional Court of Justice 1st Criminal Chamber overturned the total 152,000-year sentence of the local court in the Oktar case on March 15, 2022, conducted some research at the Judicial Repository Bureau with the knowledge and convenience provided by Prosecutor İbrahim Çiçek.

PROSECUTOR'S NIECE STARTED WORKING AT THE OKTAR GROUP'S LAW FIRMS

The whistleblower said, “In their phone conversations with Babuna and Daban, they told me that they were convinced that their relationship with Prosecutor Çiçek was good, that he believed they were innocent, and that he even made statements like 'I bet you will be acquitted in this case.' I also know that a female lawyer who is the niece of Prosecutor İbrahim Çiçek started working at Sinem Mollahasanoğlu's law firm this year. Eda Babuna and Meltem Daban even told me that the female lawyer was very inexperienced, but they hired her at the office because she was the Prosecutor's niece.” Prosecutor Çiçek's name had also appeared in the report prepared by the Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) regarding the judges who overturned the Oktar case on procedural grounds.

Continuing to describe the Oktar group's connections in the judiciary, the whistleblower claimed that Eda Babuna was in contact with Istanbul Regional Court of Justice Prosecutor İbrahim Atasu during the appeal process of the case.

OKTAR GROUP ALSO MET WITH A PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR

In the continuation of the indictment, the prosecutor's findings based on correspondence, documents, and whistleblower statements obtained during the searches were also remarkable. Evaluating the Oktar group's connections in the judiciary and bureaucracy, the prosecutor's office stated that the content of the note titled “businessman-Ankara” that was seized included meetings with bureaucrats and activities to create a political lobby.

It was emphasized that it is understood from the 7th page of the note in question that the Oktar group held bureaucratic meetings with a Presidential Advisor. Furthermore, it was stated that advice was taken from a former member of the judiciary, and that the notes on pages 8, 9, and 10 were of a similar nature. It was stated that page 27 contained a note regarding members of the judiciary in the appellate court who are being investigated by the HSK due to their connections with the Oktar group.