Disinformation Around the August 2026 Judicial Process
Was the file filled with evidence, or with slander?
Fact
This page is not an answer to a claim. It is the Furkan Movement's own statement. It records what was said as it was said; it also writes separately which part of it can be verified from outside. Keeping those two apart is the distinction on which the whole value of this site rests.
What does the statement say?
According to the statement the operation began with threats and then with dawn raids; homes were searched, trustees were appointed over private property, the magazine building was raided. In the end "not a single element of a crime" came to light.
What follows is this: those who came back empty-handed from the searches put into the file the statements of people whose hostility to the movement is known; claims already refuted in court were put forward again; Alparslan Kuytul, Semra Kuytul and dozens of others were arrested on this construction. The statement also asserts that the lies circulating on social media did not appear "even in the official file".
Its closing sentence is this:
"You can raid our homes, you can arrest us. But you cannot put handcuffs on the truth."
What can be verified from outside, and what cannot?
Verifiable: that an operation took place, that searches were carried out, that trustees were appointed and that arrests were made is public knowledge.
Not verifiable: every sentence about what is inside the file. There is a confidentiality order on the file; according to the lawyers' statements not even the defence can examine it. This holds for the sentence "the file was filled with these statements" and equally for the sentence "these things are not in the file". This page records both as the movement's statement, not as a finding.
The same limit applies to claims coming from the other side; whoever claims to know the contents of a sealed file raises the same question: where does this knowledge come from?
The real question
The question at the centre of the statement is a question of law, and it can be asked without seeing the file:
Is a file built on concrete evidence, or on the statements of people whose hostility is on record?
A statement is not evidence on its own. Whether the person making it is impartial, whether the statement is tied to a concrete fact and whether it has stood up to cross-examination — that a criminal trial asks these things is not a concession to the defendant but a requirement of procedure.
This page belongs to the August 2026 process and concerns an ongoing trial. Nothing here is a finding of guilt or innocence.
This claim was voiced again on 7 September 2026 on the CNN Türk programme "Tarafsız Bölge". The collective answer to the imputations listed on the programme: Cübbeli Ahmet's claims about the Furkan Movement on CNN Türk — the Furkan Movement's full statement text.
The full statement
The text below is a transcription of the statement in the video.
Was the file filled with evidence, or with slander? Turkey is witnessing an enormous operation against the Furkan Movement. First the threats, then the dawn raids. Every resource of the state was mobilised for this operation. Homes were searched, trustees were appointed over private property, our magazine building was raided.
And what was obtained at the end of the day? Nothing at all. There is not a single element of any offence.
It is exactly here that a game began. Those who returned from the searches empty-handed seized on the words of people who openly bear malice and enmity towards the Furkan Movement. They treated as evidence the claims of people who have no connection with us whatsoever and who stepped onto the stage purely to stir things up.
Now we ask: is a case built with concrete evidence, or with the slander of men whose enmity is on record? Does the law seek justice, or a cover for an empty file?
Every stale claim already refuted in the courts was placed before us once more. It was on this construction that they arrested Alparslan Kuytul Hocaefendi, Semra Kuytul Hocahanım and dozens of our brothers and sisters. Not one of the lies whipped up on social media was even in the official file. Because what they were after was not justice but perception.
But there is one thing they failed to reckon with: you cannot soil, with scenarios written at a desk, a movement that has come through every slander and every set-up entirely clean. You can raid our homes, you can arrest us. But you cannot put handcuffs on the truth. We will go on standing by our teacher, by our cause and by our brothers and sisters.
The statement names three people whose testimony it says was placed in the file. This page does not repeat those names: to record a person on a permanent page with the label "slanderer", without a court decision to show for it, would be to apply the very procedure being complained about. Once such decisions are produced, the names and their grounds can be added together.
When does a statement become evidence?
In a criminal trial a statement is one kind of evidence — but not on its own and not untested. Three things have to be asked:
- Is the person giving it impartial? The statement of someone with known hostility is not rejected, but that hostility is on the record and bears directly on the weight it carries.
- Is the statement tied to a concrete fact? An event described as "this person did this" must have a place, a time and a verifiable trace. A statement of opinion is not a statement of fact.
- Can the other side question it? A statement never opened to cross-examination is an allegation the person it concerns has been unable to answer.
These three questions can be asked without knowing the contents of the file; they measure not which side is right, but how the file was built.
What does "claims already refuted" mean?
Part of the statement says that claims which found no support in court are being brought up again. The documents of the period opened by the 2018 operation stand on this site one by one: the claim of links to a terrorist organisation, the claim of a criminal organisation, the fraud claim, the unlicensed dormitory claim, the claim about foundation management and responsibility.
None of those pages says anything about the contents of the 2026 file. What they do say is this: how the same headings were opened before, what document each rested on, and how each was closed, is on the record. A claim being raised again does not make it new; what became of its earlier form is part of the record too.
This page belongs to the August 2026 process. It should be read together with the other pages in the same group; the information here should not be confused with the 2018–2019 file.