Turkish court docket sentences TV preacher to greater than 1,000 years in jail: State media

A Turkish court docket on Monday sentenced Islamic tv preacher and writer Adnan Oktar to greater than 1,000 years in jail for crimes together with forming and main a felony gang, fraud and sexual abuse, state media mentioned.
Oktar beforehand ran his personal tv channel A9 on which he hosted discuss reveals on Islamic values. On event he was broadcast dancing with younger ladies he known as “kittens” and singing with younger males he dubbed his “lions”. Istanbul police arrested Oktar in July 2018, and he, together with 77 others, was saved in custody in the course of the trial.

Oktar and 13 different high-ranking members of his group have been in complete sentenced to 9,803 years and 6 months in jail, state-owned Anadolu information company reported. Oktar himself was sentenced to a complete 1,075 years and three months in jail on 10 counts. The sentences will run consecutively.
The court docket continued handy down sentences for the trial with 236 defendants most of whom pleaded not responsible and demanded acquittal, Anadolu mentioned.

Adnan Oktar denied the fees in opposition to him and demanded his launch, Anadolu reported earlier. Oktar, who started forming teams of followers on the finish of the Seventies, had beforehand confronted quite a few trials on prices together with forming a felony gang, however was acquitted.
According to his web site, Oktar has written greater than 300 books, translated into 73 languages, together with one underneath his pen-name Harun Yahya through which he argues that Darwin’s concept of evolution is on the root of worldwide terrorism.