The Republic of Turkey is a State, governed by law. However, some violations of law which have been experienced since the commencement of the Science Research Foundation case in year 2000 has regrettably cast a shadow on this attribute of our country.

Turkish society is familiar with Mr. Adnan Oktar and the members of the SRF for a very long time and they follow their works very closely. Mr. Adnan Oktar has written more than 250 books that have been translated into about 50 languages. His works are greatly admired from people all over the world. The Science Research Foundation, which Mr. Adnan Oktar is the Honorary President of, consists of individuals who are nationalists that follow the principles of Atatürk, and who are highly educated people of faith with good morals and whose major efforts are endeavouring for their country. These individuals that our nation is proud of are intellectuals obedient to their State and are with white hands that show no criminal records, not even traffic violations. It is a great unfairness and a vile plot to forcibly announce the members of SRF as well as Mr. Adnan Oktar as members of a crime ring by presenting no legal justification. The entire Turkish society knows that the SRF case, which is being heard since year 2000 and which has been investigated by 7 different court chambers, is resolved with no element of crime and is in fact an invented plot. The circles who are in fact themselves members of a criminal ring, are attempting to fabricate an imaginary gang out of the SRF members who are university graduates, researchers, scientists and authors. In fact, they are carrying out this vile game right before the eyes of the Turkish Nation. It is indeed a fact that our judges read the apparent honesty in the faces and eyes of the SRF Community, and witness their virtue, high morals and fluency of conduct and speech. Besides, the abundance of the evidence in favor of the SRF members and the fact that there is no element of a crime in the case file demonstrate the innocence of the defendants without a doubt. As a matter of fact, the problem arises at this point, because when there is not any element of a crime, the well known “methods of fabricating imaginary crimes” have been put to use. When these did not give the anticipated results, then the framework of law was broken down and means were put into effect in order to repress jurisdiction.

Dear Excellency, Minister of Justice; the 70 binders including the case file of the SRF have been examined by 7 different court chambers since the date of the case’s initiation. Not one of these courts have given a positive opinion for evaluating this case within the scope of Law No. 4422. On the contrary, the 3rd and 4th State Security Courts (DGM) have confirmed that this case does not include any findings that violate the stipulations of Law No. 4422. Following this, after being heard at the 2nd High Criminal Court, the SRF case has been dismissed due to the statute of limitations. The court case has been pursued for 6 of the defendants on the basis of the same indictment and the principle cause; and the court chamber has given a verdict of acquittal in a way to include the entire defendants since they have found no elements of crime. All these developments put forward that there is no point in the SRF case for jurisdiction due to organized crime and that the entire defendants are with white hands. In spite of this, the 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals has counteracted the verdict on the statute of limitations by a decree which is totally based on statements at the police security that have no legal validity. By leaking this decree to the press without having notified the related parties, they have committed ihsas-i rey (declaring one’s vote in advance). The members of the Supreme Court of Appeals, for whom there is a request of recusation, have violated Article 29 of Law on Criminal Procedures and sent the case file to the 2nd High Criminal Court. Without waiting for the resolution of the request for the recusation of the judges, the court chamber has given a verdict on prohibition of overseas travel for Mr. Adnan Oktar by depending on an imaginary hearsay with no legal justification. Finally, as a result of the 13 July 2007 dated hearing at the 2nd High Criminal Court, the case file has been transferred to the 5th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals and pushed into an indefinite process. Moreover, the prohibition of overseas travel for Mr. Adnan Oktar has not been resolved. Surely, the proceedings will be followed by our party. We kindly request from your Excellency, as our Minister of Justice, to follow up the proceedings of this verdict that is in violation of law and is an unjust treatment against Mr. Adnan Oktar.

Since year 2000, a hidden psychological warfare is carried on in the SRF case. On one hand there is the evidence proving the innocence of the SRF Community, law and conscience; on the other hand there is pressure from some communist, leftist circles which seeped into governmental institutions and media corporations that demand harm over the SRF Community. However, today is not a time of hostility or enmity, but a time for brotherhood and unity. The Eastern region of our country is confronted with a threat of dissolution. The plan for founding an independent Kurdistan state in Northern Iraq and detaching the Southeast region of our Nation by means of terror and uniting this land with the mentioned state is getting closer to its target step by step.

However, it should be remembered that Mr. Adnan Oktar had informed the existence of such a threat 10 years ago in his works. Regrettably, a part of the leftist-socialist sects and the socialist international organization are in admiration of PKK on the inside, thinking that the separatist terrorist organization is the system which applies communist ideology in the most excellent way. Even though they speak as if they are against PKK, they inherently advocate it. Because SRF is against the ideology of this separatist terrorist organization, there are leftist attacks on the SRF not only in Turkey, but also all around the world. The communist state-within-state ring is planning initially to give away the Eastern part of our country to PKK, and then turn our entire Nation into a communist state with affiliation to China. While implementing this plan into action, they see Mr. Adnan Oktar and the SRF Community as the major obstacle in front of them. In this respect, this communist state-within-state ring is employing continuous conspiracies and plots against Mr. Adnan Oktar and the SRF Community. The intellectual works of the SRF Community, which have cracked down materialism and the communist ideology globally, is disturbing this communist state-within-state ring as well as some media groups for ideological reasons. The hatred and grudge they hold against these intellectual efforts, that establish an impassable set against the world order they have in mind, incites them into uniting their powers against the SRF Community. To this end, there comes up lies, slanders, perversion of facts, unlawful proceedings and repression.

In point of fact, numerous plots have been employed up to now against Mr. Adnan Oktar, thankfully none of these were successful. Mr. Adnan Oktar has every time stood with white hands either before law or at the conscience of the Turkish society. In 1986, Mr. Adnan Oktar has published a book with the title Yahudilik ve Masonluk (Judaism and Freemasonry) which has been followed with a great slanderous campaign against him. Due to pressure from circles disturbed from this book, Mr. Adnan Oktar was arrested because of one word he had expressed in an interview published in a newspaper. At the 9th month of his imprisonment, a new application was put to use and Mr. Adnan Oktar was placed in the Bakirkoy Insane Asylum for a period of 10 months. During the time of his confinement there, Mr. Adnan Oktar was subjected to various ill-treatment that intended injury and oppression on his side. After being imprisoned for a period of 19 months, he was given a verdict of acquittal and dismissed by the court with the announcement of the public prosecutor that “there is no element of crime in his words”.

In 1991, there was another plot held against Mr. Adnan Oktar when he was working on a very important book about history of freemasonry and organization of global freemasonry. The police that raided into Mr. Adnan Oktar’s house in Ortakoy where he lived with his mother found a package of cocaine in the first book they held in their hands within a library composed of 2000 books.

Upon this occurrence, Mr. Adnan Oktar was put in detention at Istanbul Police Security. At the end of 62 hours in police custody, he was transferred to Department of Forensic Medicine for cocaine testing. The test results showed that in his blood there was a high ratio of a byproduct of cocaine. The appalling results showed that if the related high dosage of cocaine was introduced into Mr. Adnan Oktar’s body more than 62 hours ago, this amount would cause his death. This fact demonstrated that this cocaine was introduced in Mr. Adnan Oktar’s body at a much shorter period of time than 62 hours, as a matter of fact during his presence in police custody.

This fact has been confirmed and attested by almost 30 international forensic institutions including Scotland Yard following our application. This has proven that the event was a plot and cocaine was given to Mr. Adnan Oktar by means of mixing it in his food during his presence at the police security. However, the cocaine plot was not the last of the ones attempted against Mr. Adnan Oktar. When the communist circles that aimed at impeding Mr. Adnan Oktar’s works by means of such defamation at that time could not attain the results they wished for, so this time they resorted to making allegations of a criminal organization. 

The circles who are expecting a fait accompli similar to the ones in the past should know that the SRF Community is observed not only by the Turkish society, but also by the entire world. The most significant law professors of many countries have been informed of the SRF case in detail and they are closely monitoring the proceedings in jurisdiction. Especially the academicians who have great expertise in Criminal Law have presented various legal opinions on violations of law and procedures during the jurisdiction of the SRF case and submitted these to the court. Herewith in these legal opinions the pretended extension of the SRF case despite the obvious non-existence of any evidence of crime against the defendants, and the deliberate pressure to consider it within the scope of a criminal organization is being assessed with bewilderment.

Dear Excellency, Minister of Justice, we have faith that you will not let this ambush, which is set up against the members of the SRF and Mr. Adnan Oktar to whom we will entrust the future of our country, is accomplished. Turkish Justice will never overlook people with evil intentions that reproduce non-existent accusations of crime. Sooner or later, the plots of the ones that attempt to repress jurisdiction and manipulate the legal system for their own interests will be crushed before law and jurisprudence.

My kindest regards,

Sedat Altan
Science Research Foundation
Chairman of the Board of Trustees