SCIENCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DEFENSE FILE

Science Research Foundation (SRF) is a service institution established in year 1990 in order to preserve the national and moral values of the Turkish Nation and Society by keeping these on the agenda, as well as to generate strategic solutions to the current problems of our country. The SRF community consists of entirely university graduates, who are highly cultured individuals, every one of which have exemplary clean judicial records and who are in total respect of law and have great love for their country. The purpose of our Foundation is to cultivate intellectual generations that are adherent to Atatürk's policies and that represent a democratic, modern, nationalist, progressive characteristic with an high opinion of moral values. In this regard, the SRF community has organized and is organizing numerous panels, conferences, symposiums and scientific summits.  

The Honorary President of our Foundation, Mr. Adnan Oktar, has written more than 250 books under the pen name "Harun Yahya”. These valuable works of the author are published in 57 different languages, in 80 countries. Today, millions of people all over the world closely follow the documentaries, audio books, and Internet websites which are prepared on the basis of these works.

Some circles that are disturbed by the intellectual studies of the SRF members as well as Mr. Adnan Oktar are resorting to all kinds of methods in order to stop or obstruct these efforts. For this reason, plenty of plots have been set up against Mr. Adnan Oktar up to this day, slander campaigns were put to effect and even there were attempts of misleading and repressing some public officers and members of jurisdiction.

As a result of these attempts, there was a police raid on 12 November 1999 at 3am in the morning by 2000 (two thousand) police officers to 45 homes and offices at the same time. During the investigations held in this forced entry, house doors were broken down, violence was applied pointlessly although there was no resistance from the people living in these houses, and substantial unlawfulness was carried out during the interrogation and in the confiscation reports. People put in custody were subjected to torture for 7 days, they were threatened with death, exposed to violence and 8 people who were injured due to ill treatment received hospitalization reports. These people all had to sign the fabricated statements prepared in advance in order to secure themselves from being crippled or to save their lives.

Not only the people in police custody, but also their families and friends were also put under oppression. The families who came to the police security to learn the condition of their relatives in detention were coerced with such threatening that if they did not sign petitions of complaint against Mr. Adnan Oktar and the SRF members, their children would be put in prison. This way they were forced to be complainants. These people, whose names were included as complainants in the indictment of the SRF case that started in 2000, later on submitted petitions to the court or to the office of the public prosecutor, declaring that they were forced to be complainants due to pressure at the police security and they did not have any complaints either against Mr. Adnan Oktar or the SRF members at all.

The indictment of the SRF case which was initiated at the 1st State Security Court (DGM) with the allegation of “forming a crime ring acting for material gain” that violated Law No. 4422 consists of quotations from fabricated statements signed at the police security under torture. The SRF case was examined by 7 different court chambers and not even one evidence or document was found to prove the allegations in the indictment. On the contrary, there exist hundreds of documents, expert reports, jurisdictions, testimonies and scientific legal opinions that prove the innocence of, and evidence the white hands of the BAV community. In addition to this, the joint opinion of the 7 different courts which have examined our case is that there is no element of crime that may be considered within the stipulations of Law No. 4422 in the court case.

The SRF case which started in year 2000 was dismissed on 24.11.2005 due to the statute of limitations; however the same allegations were continued in a parallel court case based on the same principle cause for the 6 defendants who were not included within the scope of the statute of limitations. The court chamber examined the entire documentation in the case file and ruled a verdict that would clear all defendants in the SRF case from all accusations, and in this respect this case for the 6 defendants were concluded with a decision of acquittal on 22.01.2007. This decision by the 2nd High Criminal Court is an apparent evidence of the innocence of the SRF members. There are no complainants that have been able to present any concrete allegations in the case file, neither are there any evidence of a crime disfavoring the defendants, nor any testimonies that are in opposition. In summary, the case file is totally empty in terms of any evidence of a crime.

Despite this, some illegally structured groups that are opposing the intellectual line of Mr. Adnan Oktar and the SRF community because of ideological reasons arouse an artificial indignation by employing their extensions in some press organs and this way, attempt to repress jurisdiction and put obstacles to prevent the resolution of the SRF case with a verdict of acquittal. As a result of this repression, there were instances of unlawful implementations against the SRF during the appellate examination by the 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals. The judges of the 8th Criminal Chamber have counteracted the verdict of dismissal of the case based on statute of limitations by means of a controversial and unlawful ruling and this way have severely violated the individual rights of the people put to trial in the SRF case. The members of the 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals who were involved in this counteracting decision have disregarded the joint opinion of 7 courts which declared there was no element of crime violating Law No. 4422, as well as the hundreds of evidence in favor of the defendants and the verdict of acquittal by the 2nd High Criminal Court; and they have based their ruling merely on the fabricated statements received at the police security in year 2000. Moreover, they have not been able to give a legal account as justification of their decision. This development is considered with puzzlement by many experts of law all over the world.

Besides, in the ruling stipulated by the judges of the 8th Criminal Chamber, the wording used such as “the allegations are proven” has neither basis nor evidence, and is diametrically opposed to the current status of the evidence in the case file; and not even one of the courts have up to now consumed such expressions during the 7 year term of the jurisdiction. The allegations which have been  “nullified with proofs” beyond dispute with facts and evidence in the case file, have been reproduced to be (only based on the testimonies at the police security) “proven” in the decree of the Supreme Court of Appeals prepared by the judges of the 8th Criminal Chamber. This grave unlawful act has to a great extent violated the right of the SRF members to a fair trial.

In addition to this, the judges of the 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals have leaked their ruling to the press 3 days before its official declaration and signature, and this has paved the way for an illegal slander campaign targeting the SF community by some media corporations. These publications full of slanderous accusations have been an attack against the individual rights of the members of the SRF community, who had to acknowledge the decree counteracting the statute of limitations from the headlines in the newspapers.

All these unlawful acts are the product of efforts to hinder the intellectual efforts of Mr. Adnan Oktar and the SRF that is spreading throughout the entire world with an immense speed. Manipulating jurisdiction and attempting to show young, educated, modern and innocent individuals who are totally with high morals, and who have not committed any crimes in their lives as a criminal organization is a vile plot, which will ultimately fall off. The ones who are trying to set up an imaginary gang out of a community represented by researchers, authors, scientists, professionals and respectable individuals who endeavor for peace, love, respect, compassion and justice, are in an effort that is vain.

It is a very clear fact that the union of gang members would only bring out tragedies, on the contrary, the union of the SRF members give rise to a brilliant youth filled with high morals and love of their nation, and with high esteem of peace, love, respect and justice. The members of the SRF, who day and night show great efforts to this end, have faith in the rule of law and righteousness of the Turkish Justice.

As it is well known by the entire Turkish community and the millions of people who follow the works of Mr. Adnan Oktar, there exists no acts of crime or no criminal rings. In this website, we are presenting to your kind attention the entire documentation and jurisdictional statements in the case file that refute the false allegations against the SRF community up to our day.