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Tag collecting the pages where assessments about the AK Party and the claims raised on this subject appear.

The claim that his "roots are abroad" and that he is linked to foreign powers

The accusation at the centre of the dispute with Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu is a single sentence: "his roots are abroad". Alparslan Kuytul's answer begins the same way — his mother is known, his father is known, the people he meets are known — and it ends by calling the accuser into a mutual curse. To this day not one document has been produced.

Unfounded

The Answer He Gave to the Question "Was the AK Parti a Project?"

In his interview of 10 December 2019 he answered this question with "There is no choice but to say yes"; he set out his reasoning through the examples of Erbakan, Morsi and İncirlik in 2003.

Why Did the Religious Communities Stay Silent?

He explains why no other religious communities or orders spoke out during his 22-month detention by pointing to partisanship; as his criterion he cites Hazrat Ali's advice to at least make oppression known.

Who Does He Mean by "Deep Forces"?

He describes the term he uses so often himself: the dominant bureaucracy that turns secularism into hostility toward Islam. He separates the government from it, because the grievance and the demand of the two are not the same.

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.

"I Am Against Oppression, No Matter Who It Is Done To"

He explains, with examples, the criterion of not looking at the identity of the one who has been wronged; and he shows its limit as well: he says that if an injustice were done to the government that put him in prison, he would defend it too.

Why Was I Arrested? His Own Three Answers

In the written defence he submitted to the court he listed the three reasons he saw behind the operation of 30 January 2018: criticism of the AK Party, the plans of the deep state and, above all, his expounding of tawhid.

The claim that "they are being obstructed because they are enemies of the government"

The thesis presented as the reason for the obstructions does not match the record: he supported the same government's resolution process and welcomed its headscarf regulation.

Unfounded

The "He Is Hostile to the AK Party Government" Claim

The criticism genuinely exists and is not hidden. But the decisions he openly supported in those same years are on record too: calling a wrong a wrong is not hostility.

Partly true

Was the Phrase "His Pen Has Been Broken" an Insult to the President?

The sentence that was cut out was not a wish but a warning describing what others were doing. The chief inspector of the Directorate General of Foundations wrote that it contained no insult, and on 10 January 2019 the court returned an acquittal.

Unfounded

The claim that "he criticises the government only because of his own grievance"

The conference cancellations began in 2014; yet he had objected to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and to Syria policy in 2011 — that is, eleven years before the event the claim counts as the cause.

Unfounded

The "He Says Tawhid but Divides the Muslims" Claim

The claim rests on a confusion of concepts: tawhid is to recognise no authority besides Allah, while wahdah is the unity of the Muslims. And criticism and tafriqa are not the same thing either.

Distorted

The Claim That the Members of the Religious Community Are an "Unquestioning Herd"

A blanket imputation made about thousands of people without a single name, incident or record being given. What stands against it is madrasa work, educational activities and an open archive.

Unfounded

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".

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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