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2026 operation

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Pages on the investigation and arrests carried out in August 2026 and the claims circulating throughout the process.

Kuytul's prison ward was raided — even the inside of his sock was inspected

Alparslan Kuytul's lawyer, Ömer Hakseven, reported that one day after the case files he had delivered himself entered the ward, Kuytul's ward was raided, all his belongings were scattered, and he was made to take off his slippers and even the inside of his sock was inspected. The reason given was the metal fastener inside the blue folders.

Clothes brought by Kuytul's family were not handed over in prison

The clothes were not handed over. His daughter Meryem Kuytul set out a month of shifting rules: thirty days in the same clothes, and the weather has turned cold.

House arrest for a silent vigil, judicial control for a social media reply

Furkan Haber reports three members holding a silent vigil in Muş were put under house arrest, and that those replying online face judicial control.

Press statements broken up: 46 detained, 9 arrested

Furkan Haber reports police intervened in press statements in several provinces, above all Istanbul; 46 people were taken into custody and 9 were arrested.

Bank accounts of detainees and those under house arrest frozen

Furkan Haber reports the freezes on the accounts of detained members and those under house arrest continue, cutting their living with no conviction.

Ten people transferred to Erzurum are held in solitary

Furkan Haber reports ten detainees in the case are in solitary confinement, moved from around Adana to Erzurum without their families or lawyers being informed.

Semra Kuytul moved a second time, again without notice

Furkan Haber reports that Semra Kuytul, first sent to Diyarbakır, was soon moved again to Samsun Carsamba Prison without her family being told.

Moved 1,000 km away without telling the family

Furkan Haber reports Kuytul was taken from Adana Kurkculer with no word to family or lawyer; they found him in Erzurum by calling prisons one by one.

Thirty-six people arrested with no concrete evidence

Furkan Haber reports that despite the absence of concrete evidence in the file, arrest orders were issued for Alparslan Kuytul, Semra Kuytul and 34 members.

The order of entry into court came from troll lists

Furkan Haber reports that members were called in not alphabetically but in the order of lists posted by anonymous accounts shortly before the hearing.

Access bans on official websites and social media accounts

Furkan Haber reports that alongside the operation, access bans were placed on the movement's official websites and on many members' social media accounts.

A second search of a magazine building where nothing had been found

Furkan Haber reports a fresh search of the Furkan Nesli building, already searched with nothing found, and that members were not let in even as witnesses.

Trustees appointed to five companies with no link to the movement

Furkan Haber reports that alongside the operation, trustees were appointed to five private companies having no financial or organic tie to the Furkan Movement.

No soap, clothing or prescribed medication in custody

Furkan Haber reports basic supplies were withheld despite the heat in Adana, and that some detainees with chronic illnesses got no medication.

A statement taken on the fourth day with no lawyer present

Furkan Haber reports detainees were blocked from meeting their lawyers, and that Alparslan Kuytul gave a statement on the fourth day without counsel.

Handcuffed without a custody order

According to Furkan Haber, the officers who arrived on 19 August held no formal custody order; Kuytul was handcuffed with no resistance and no danger present.

Pensions of Kuytul and his students blocked while the investigation continues

Lawyer Ömer Hakseven: a block imposed with no concrete evidence, at the investigation stage, has cut the family's only income. Five children are affected.

A "well-type" wing: no sunlight reaches the floor of the prison holding Kuytul

Lawyer Ömer Hakseven on the prison holding Alparslan Kuytul: 13-metre yard walls, sunlight that never reaches the ground, birds that cannot come down.

The "Furkan Intelligence Organisation" and "Execution Squad" Claim

No unit set up under that name exists; the accounts of a court being set up inside the movement, of people being tried there and of punishment being applied are rejected. There is neither a final court ruling nor a single person who says they went through this.

Unfounded

The Claim of Money Laundering in Germany

Money laundering is a grave and technical criminal imputation; it requires concrete evidence and a final ruling. That there are people abroad who hold the same ideas does not show that there is an unlawful financial organisation among them. There is no joint financial structure of the kind claimed.

Unfounded

The Claim That the Furkan Foundation Has Companies

There is no commercial company belonging to the Furkan Foundation. That there are tradespeople and company owners among those who attend the lessons does not make those companies the foundation's. Nor does the fact that measures were applied to some companies in the investigation prove ownership.

Unfounded

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

"This file is not a criminal file, it is a SILENCE file"

The message Alparslan Kuytul sent from Erzurum Dumlu Prison was published on 1 September 2026 from the Furkan Movement's X account. It says that the purpose behind the detention of 46 people in Istanbul and the arrest of 9 of them is to put an end to the marches and to make those in prison forgotten; it asks that the press statements be continued even if only one person is left.

Was the file filled with evidence, or with slander?

The Furkan Movement's statement on the 2026 operation: when the searches produced no element of a crime, the file was, it says, filled with the statements of people whose hostility to the movement is known and with claims already refuted in court.

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