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The prison sentence was handed down by a court in Turkey on Monday. Oktar figure is quite popular in Indonesia for writing books dealing with science and religion. (Read: Turkey punishes the famous Ustad Harun Yahya 1,075 years in prison)
Who is Oktar? Quoting Turkish media; Sabah daily, day Leave out of college, and rose to fame in the 1980s when he gained a following among students, mostly children of the wealthy elite.
During that period, he was arrested for promoting the theocratic revolution. After serving in a mental institution and writing books under the alias Harun Yahya, Oktar developed his cult in the 1990s through the Science Research Foundation, which he founded primarily to promote his anti-evolution books.
In the 2000s, he organized events inTV A9 that he established. He appeared sporadically on hour-long talk shows giving lectures on worldviews, sometimes acting strangely dancing with his followers; young women modestly dressed what he called “kittens.”
Due to his lectures on religion, he was considered a preacher or figure of ustad. However, the Turkish authorities and local media consider him the leader of a sex cult.
He is among 236 defendants on trial since September 2019 and has faced a variety of charges, from espionage to sexual harassment. Oktar received a total prison sentence of 1,075 years in a trial that included 78 defendants. (Also read: Here are 10 Harun Yahya controversies, including having 1,000 girlfriends)
Oktar, 64, and dozens of his followers were arrested in simultaneous raids across the country in 2018. A 499-page indictment describes him and his men as a criminal gang that thrives on extortion, fraud, laundering. of money and a host of other crimes.
