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Pages addressing explanations of what is meant by the phrase "deep state".
The Furkan Movement has made a live broadcast of 25 August 2026 the subject of a criminal complaint. In it the speaker says "he will poison himself in prison" and "let us bury this one properly, let him never get out". Kuytul spent years in prison before this and showed no such tendency; the movement reads the words not as a prediction but as a threat dressed up as suicide.
Notes from the defence he made at the 11th High Criminal Court in the 17th month of his detention: the three items he counts as the reason the case was brought, and his answer to the indictment.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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