A Turkish televangelist known for hosting a TV show featuring young women whom he referred to as “kittens” was sentenced to 8,658 years in prison on Wednesday following a retrial in an Istanbul court, ...

Turkey's most notorious sex-cult leader, Adnan Oktar, was slammed on Thursday by the head of the country's Directorate for Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, who claimed the television personality may ...

A controversial televangelist known for broadcasting sermons surrounded by young women he refers to as his “kittens” has been arrested along with more than 150 of his followers in a series of raids by ...

FOR YEARS, Adnan Oktar’s cult made for outrageously bad television. Newspapers indulged him as a crackpot, an Islamic preacher surrounded by a harem of women in heavy make-up and swimsuits. (Mr Oktar ...

ANKARA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday sentenced Islamic television preacher and author Adnan Oktar to more than 1,000 years in jail for crimes including forming and leading a criminal ...

Police arrested controversial Islamic televangelist Adnan Oktar in an early-morning raid on his upscale home in Turkey’s largest city, according to state news agency Anadolu. More than 160 people with ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police arrested Islamic television preacher and author Adnan Oktar and more than 160 of his followers in dawn raids across Turkey on Wednesday, saying they were suspected ...