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Pages on the 15 July 2016 coup attempt and claims about that night; the cropped clips are placed next to the full live broadcast.

Cübbeli Ahmet's claims about the Furkan Movement on CNN Türk

On 7 September 2026, on Ahmet Hakan's CNN Türk programme "Tarafsız Bölge", Cübbeli Ahmet listed grave accusations about the Furkan Movement and Alparslan Kuytul under nine headings. The Movement rejected them all. No trial has begun, yet investigation claims were aired as a settled verdict.

Unfounded

Why Did I Defend the KHK Victims?

While saying that anyone involved in the coup was guilty, he objected to those who were not involved being put in the same basket. His basis was two official figures: roughly 150,000 dismissals and the 11,480 people the prosecutor's office declared innocent.

The claim that he was "part of the coup project"

The evidence was a video cut down to under a minute; when the 4.5-minute original of the speech was published, most of those who had shared it corrected their view.

Unfounded

The claim of a "coup-loving foundation" and the Directorate General's examination

The complaint made to BİMER demanding the foundation's closure was left without result by the chief inspector of the Directorate General of Foundations, who examined the same video recording and wrote that it contained nothing constituting an offence.

Unfounded

The claim that "he hoped for deliverance from the coup"

Someone who hoped to gain from a coup does not say in the same speech that he too might go to prison. What was said that same night, three hours later and six days later is all on record.

Unfounded

The claim that he said "may it be blessed" about the coup

The opening sentence of the speech was taken, everything in between was thrown away, and the clip stops one step short of the sentence that refutes the claim. The words "may it be blessed" occur nowhere in it.

Unfounded

Why is he against coups? The 15 July interview

An interview given about 25 days after the coup: a coup is a usurpation of authority, the state does not change unless society changes, and this is not the path of the prophets.

The "he knew about the coup in advance" claim

A political assessment made on 1 July 2016 was presented as though it had been made one day before the coup; yet the same observation had been voiced since 10 February 2016.

Unfounded

The "He said July 15 was theatre" claim

The remark really was made; but what was meant is not that there was no coup or that the government staged it, rather the view that the coup plotters were provoked and lured into a trap.

Out of context

The "He Called the People Who Took to the Streets on 15 July Murderers" Claim

In the full recording the word "murderer" was said not about those who took to the streets, but about those who beheaded the privates brought to the bridge after being told "there is a drill".

Out of context

The "He Knew About the Coup in Advance" Claim: How the Date of the Speech Was Changed

The speech was made on Friday 1 July 2016; the date given in the claim falls on a Thursday, and for twenty-two years the exegesis lesson has been held on a Friday.

Unfounded

Attributing the Claim to the "Hatay Police"

The name of an institution was written at the end of the post. There is no statement published to that effect; naming an institution does not mean that the institution gave the information.

Unverifiable

The "They Are Going to Attack Alevi Neighbourhoods" Claim

What is at hand is not an event that happened, but an event said to be going to happen. In the 22 years from 1994 to 2016 there is not a single violent incident the foundation was involved in.

Unfounded

The "Enemy of the Alevis" Claim

The foundation is based in Adana, a province with a dense Alevi population. In twenty-two years there has not been a single incident between the two sides; participants of Alevi origin are in the movement too.

Unfounded

Why Was the Call for a Mutual Imprecation Made to Faruk Beşer?

There is no one-sided curse here; there is a call for a mutual imprecation, made after three and a half months of silence, conditional and covering both sides.

Distorted

The claim that "he did not come out into the squares against the coup"

It is true that they did not join the democracy vigils. But on 21 July 2016 they held an anti-coup gathering in a public square with hundreds of people; the objection was not to opposing the coup but to the name given to the protest.

Partly true

March 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in March 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".

The claim that the speeches complained of constituted an offence

Following the complaints of the summer of 2016 the original recordings were examined; the report stated that nothing constituting an offence had been found in the video recording, and one complainant withdrew his application.

Unfounded

He Knew About the Coup a Day in Advance / He Threatened Erdoğan

His speech of 1 July was clipped and circulated by pro-government news sites — a-haber chief among them — and by troll accounts, together with claims that he had known about the coup a day in advance and that he had threatened President Erdoğan. In reality it was an analysis made for an entirely different purpose and about other events, and a sincere warning to the President and those around him.

Out of context

Did Alparslan Kuytul congratulate the coup?

The unedited video, set against the cropped clips in circulation claiming that Alparslan Kuytul congratulated the coup on the night of 15 July.

Out of context

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