THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ADNAN OKTAR
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A short biography of Adnan Oktar:
The forebears of Adnan Oktar, a sayyid, migrated to the Caucasus during Hulagu’s invasion, and subsequently sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire during the Ottoman-Russian and Russian-Caucasian wars, settling in Bala, Ankara.
The origins of Beslen Arslan Kasayev, grandfather of Omer Bey, Mr. Oktar’s grandfather, go back to the Nogay dynasty. This family is also known as the Arslanogullari (the sons of Arslan) and is one of the twenty-one sayyid families whose names appear in a document prepared for the Caucasus governorship in 1827.
Information concerning the surnames and family members of the Nogay sayyids living in the Kara Nogay and Yediskul region
 | Photocopy of an original document dated 17 July, 1827, in the Russian Federation Stavropol Federal Archive. Archive No. 48, Vol. 2, File No. 853. This historical document contains details of the identities and families of the Nogay sayyids living in the Kara Nogay and Yediskul regions. The record concerning Beslen Arslan, the grand grandfather of Adnan Oktar and his family appear under No. 3 in the list. Mr. Oktar’s grandfather, Omer Bey, was born in the Caucasus and settled in the Ankara township of Bala in 1902. Omer Bey’s father was Haji Yusuf, and Haji Yusuf’s father is Beslen Arslan (Kasayev) recorded as a sayyid in the Russian archive. |
| | Family Members | |
| NAME AND FAMILY | Male | Female |
| 1. Nugay Kaplanov and family | 4 | 3 |
| 2. Yusuf Ali Aysoltanov and family | 2 | 5 |
| 3. BESLEN ARSLAN KASAYEV AND FAMILY | 2 | 4 |
| 4. Han Muhambet Ismailov and family | 3 | - |
| 5. Muhambet Kantemirov and family | 8 | 9 |
| 6. Mengligirey Tilenchiyev and family | 3 | - |
| 7. Yanseyit Abdullayev and family | 2 | 4 |
| 8. Gazi Inal Batirburzayev and family | 5 | 7 |
| 9. Hayati Ahmetov and family | 3 | 3 |
| 10. Nemin Yasenbi Adjiyev and family | 8 | 5 |
| 11. Alibey Mamayev and family | 3 | 3 |
| 12. Musousov and family | 2 | 3 |
| 13. Alibek Soltanaliyev and family | 4 | - |
| 14. Bekmurza Karamurzayev and family | 3 | 2 |
| 15. Aslangirey Temirhanov and family | 3 | 3 |
| 16. Alibey Temirov and family | 2 | 3 |
| 17. Ali Mamayev and family | 3 | 1 |
| 18. Beymurza Isterekov and family | 4 | 3 |
| 19. Tausultan Temirhanov | 7 | - |
| 20. Mamay Arslanov and family | 1 | - |
| 21. Magomet Utepov and family | 3 | 3 |
| Total number of individuals | 75 | 61 |
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| Adnan Oktar’s father is listed as Yusuf Oktar Arslan in official records. The surname Arslan also appears in Russian records. |
Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar lived there through his high school years. During this period, his devotion to Islamic moral values grew even stronger. He deepened his profound knowledge of Islam by reading works of all the great Islamic scholars and decided to tell everyone about Islam’s moral values and summon them to a knowledge of truth and beauty. To continue his education, he entered Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan University in 1979 coming in third from among thousands of candidates. Mr. Oktar, a talented artist since childhood who regards art as a manifestation of Allah’s superior creation, painted surrealist pictures from time to time and gave away a large number of paintings as gifts to friends. In addition, Mr. Oktar numbers animals, plants and flowers among his spheres of interest, as well as horticulture, interior design, and décor.
This environment accorded religion and moral values no respect, and rejected them almost entirely. The materialist view predominated. But Adnan Oktar began telling those around him of the invalidity of Darwinism, of the existence and oneness of Allah, and was the only person who prayed openly in the Molla Mosque, adjacent to the university.
THE MIMAR SINAN YEARS IN ADNAN OKTAR'S OWN WORDS >>>
Adnan Oktar attached special importance to refuting the theory of evolution. That was because he saw that ever since Darwinism’s first appearance, it had been subsumed by materialism and atheism. Aware that today, those same circles are still defending Darwinism and striving to keep it alive for ideological reasons, Adnan Oktar believes that eradicating Darwinism will hand those movements a major defeat.
THE FIRST PAMPHLET TO DEAL DARWINISM
A BODY BLOW
To that end, Adnan Oktar concentrated on proving the invalidity of this deception that for more than a century had turned people away from religious moral values. He realized that since Darwinism advanced itself in the name of science, the most effective means of revealing its true face was through science itself. Based on that viewpoint, he brought out a pamphlet entitled The Theory of Evolution, a summary of his wide-ranging research and study, and personally bore all the printing costs by selling property inherited from his family, and distributed the pamphlet free of charge to other university students. Using an accessible and comprehensible style, this pamphlet demonstrated that evolution was a deception, with no scientific validity. Many people who read the pamphlet and spoke with Adnan Oktar came to agree that no living thing could come into being by chance, and that Almighty Allah created the universe and all living things in it. Nonetheless some students in the university, blindly devoted to materialist thought, continued in denial, despite having seen the clear truth. Some militant students openly threatened Mr. Oktar, saying his life would be in danger unless he ceased his activities. Yet this only increased Mr. Oktar’s determination and devotion to Allah. The harsh reactions and alarm evinced by materialist circles were significant proof that he was on the right path. In a university in which terror ruled, dominated by atheist and materialist movements, it was very difficult for anyone to freely expound his own views and defend his own beliefs. During those years, while many young people in Turkey were ruthlessly slaughtered because of ideological tensions, Adnan Oktar openly preached the existence and oneness of Allah and of the truth of the Qur’an. In a university where no one had the courage to state his beliefs openly, he continued to pray regularly at the mosque, unwavering in the face of reactions and threats.
SPREADING RELIGIOUS MORAL VALUES
AT MIMAR SINAN UNIVERSITY When Adnan Oktar began communicating Islamic values, he was quite alone. For more than three years nobody at Mimar Sinan University backed up his views, yet that did not alter his determination. Knowing that Allah was his only friend, he did all these things solely to gain His approval.
August 2007 He devoted all his time, energy and means to a single purpose: earning the good pleasure, mercy and Paradise of Allah, and telling all mankind about religious moral values.
EXAMPLES OF MESSAGES SENT BY THOSE WHO CAME TO BELIEVE BY WAY OF ADNAN OKTAR'S WORKS >>>
THE FIRST SMEAR CAMPAIGN AND TORTURE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL
In the summer of 1986, Adnan Oktar was arrested, with no rightful legal ground whatsoever, for having stated, “I am a member of the Turkish People, and of the Nation of Ibrahim,” in an interview carried by a newspaper. Again under the influence of the circles mentioned above, deceitful reports, groundless information and slanders about him began appearing in various publications.  Adnan Oktar was first arrested and imprisoned. He was confined in a one-man cell for nine months. He was then chained by the foot to a bed in the Forensic Medicine Department for 40 days. He was then transferred to the Bakirkoy Mental Hospital on the grounds of being mentally unhealthy and placed under observation in ward 14A, poorly maintained, filthy, and used to house the most dangerous inmates. Ward 14A, which housed 300 mental patients, was in a stone building left over from the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid and could be entered only by passing through a number of locked iron doors, since killings among patients were viewed as nothing out of the ordinary. During Mr. Oktar's time there, seven murders were committed.
 In addition, he was forcibly given drugs blurring consciousness. Those who managed to visit him witnessed that he had lost none of his determination and enthusiasm at this time. Postgraduate students, nurses and even doctors were prohibited from seeing him, out of concerns that he would turn them to Islamic moral values. Shortly afterwards, his relatives and friends were also banned from visiting him, and even telephone calls were forbidden. He was threatened with spending the rest of his life in the hospital unless he abandoned his intellectual activities. Certain circles strongly suggested that if he ceased publication of Judaism and Freemasonry, he could immediately be released from hospital and spend the rest of his life in comfort. Financial incentives were also offered if he would hand over all the book’s research materials. But he rejected all these offers, refusing to bow to the threats and pressure that only enhanced his determination.
THE MENTAL HOSPITAL PERIOD IN ADNAN OKTAR'S OWN WORDS >>> After Oktar had been detained for 19 months, the Prosecutor’s Office determined there was “no offence in the statements uttered.” He was declared innocent and released. The report issued by the Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) confirming Adnan Oktar’s SANITY, however, was never once mentioned by the press. After being depicted as mentally ill for 20 years, a Military Hospital report confirmed that he was completely sane. TO SEE THE GATA REPORT CONFIRMING ADNAN OKTAR’S SANITY BELOW
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