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Pages where a claim is examined by looking for its counterpart in the official record.

The claim that the Furkan Foundation has links to terrorist organisations

The documents stating that the foundation had no link to terrorism were inside the case file itself; the reports of the TEM counter-terrorism unit and of MİT had been drawn up more than a year before the operation.

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 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

"He has ties to FETÖ" claim

The claim was investigated by the police before the 30 January 2018 operation, following a tip-off dated 2016: the ByLock, Bank Asya, association and telephone queries all came back empty.

Unfounded

The "He made propaganda for FETÖ" claim

While the indictment writes propaganda for a terrorist organization, the police documents in the same case file write that no involvement, contact or association with FETÖ could be found. The contradiction lies inside a single file.

Unfounded

The "They Resemble FETÖ's Early Years" Claim

A resemblance is not evidence. The possibility of a covert cadre inside state institutions was in fact investigated by the police in 2016-2017; no record was found.

Distorted

The claim that "the Furkan Foundation is part of the FETÖ structure"

The foundation, its founders and its forty-four-member board of trustees were screened by the police on 9 January 2017; no link to any terrorist organization was found, and the foundations audit reached the same conclusion.

Unfounded

Does Alparslan Kuytul Support ISIS?

Not a supporter of ISIS but a name that appears on the organisation's death list; his criticisms of ISIS were recorded in 2014, four years before the accusations.

Unfounded

The claim that he advocates armed jihad

The answer, dated 30 May 2010, says that jihad is also waged with property, with knowledge and with preaching, and that nothing can be achieved in Turkey by arms; the claim holds on to a single sentence about occupied lands.

Out of context

The claim that he supports armed organisations

The claim is older than the 2018 operation: the same question was put and answered on 15 February 2014, and in a record of activity spanning more than thirty years, all of it public, not a single piece of evidence of support has emerged.

Unfounded

The claim that Salafi and takfirist individuals attended his talks

The claim was manufactured out of the middle of a single sentence in the police letter in the 2018 case file; both the beginning and the end of that same sentence say the opposite of the claim.

Out of context

Is Alparslan Kuytul a takfirist?

The person accused of takfirism is someone who gave a twenty-five-hour talk to set out the harm takfirism does; the state's own record likewise says that he "does not hold a takfirist understanding".

Unfounded

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

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