The purges began in Turkey just 48 hours after the swearing in of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish police have launched an operation to arrest 235 people linked to Muslim writer and evangelist Adnan Oktar on charges of criminal organization, fraud and sexual abuse, Istanbul police said.
The statement explained that the financial police carried out the raids, while the state agency Anadolu reported that they took place in five provinces and have not been completed yet.
Police searched Oktar's house in the Cegelkϊy district, on the Asian side of Istanbul, early in the morning and arrested him along with his bodyguards, according to the Sabah newspaper.
In February, Turkey's television regulator cut short a television program featuring Oktar, which mixed the debate with dance, on the grounds that it violated gender equality and women's rights.
Oktar appeared on talk shows on his A9 television network, talking about Islamic values and sometimes dancing with young women whom he called "kittens", while singing with young men, whom he called "lions".
In 2006, Oktar wrote the book "The Atlas of Creation" under the pseudonym Harun Yahya. In it he explains that Darwin's theory of evolution is the root of global terrorism. He has written a total of more than 300 books, which have been translated into 73 languages, according to A9 on its website.
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