confidentiality order

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Pages on the confidentiality orders placed on the case file and their consequences for the defence and the public.

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.

The claim that the case file contains a FETÖ contact list

According to a claim circulated on 22 August 2026, the investigation file contains a table showing the FETÖ/PDY contacts of the movement's leadership. Two days later one of the lawyers on the case reported that he had shown the post to the prosecutor handling the file in person, and that the prosecutor said "there is definitely no list of this kind in our file".

Unverifiable

The claim that money gushed out of the safe in the password-protected room

There was money in the safe; but it was the receipted income of a foundation authorised to collect donations, and it came out of the foundation's own safe, not out of anyone's home.

Out of context

The claim that a 3-million-lira racket was run with fake receipts

A fake-receipt story was published on 27 February 2018; yet the police had seized the receipts in the search, and the copies left with the donors had been submitted to the court at the first hearing.

Unfounded

Was the file filled with evidence, or with slander?

The claim that the case file contains a FETÖ contact list

The claim that money gushed out of the safe in the password-protected room

The claim that a 3-million-lira racket was run with fake receipts

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