イスラム教テレビ伝道師に禁錮１０７５年、性的暴行などで　トルコ

【イスタンブールＡＦＰ＝時事】トルコの裁判所は11日、肌をあらわにした女性に囲まれていたイスラム教のテレビ伝道師の男に、性的暴行などの罪で禁錮1075年を言い渡した。（写真はトルコ・イスタンブールで警察に連行されるアドナン・オクタル被告）
　アドナン・オクタル被告（６４）はテレビで創造説と保守的な価値観を説く一方、「子猫ちゃん」と呼ぶ取り巻きの女性を自分の周りでアップテンポの曲に合わせて踊らせていた。
　オクタル被告は２０１８年、イスタンブール警察の金融犯罪課による取り締まりの一環で逮捕された２００人以上の一人だった。
　トルコの民放テレビＮＴＶによると、オクタル被告は性的暴行や未成年者に対する性的虐待、詐欺、政治的・軍事的スパイ行為を試みた罪などで禁錮１０７５年の判決を受けた。
　裁判所はまた、オクタル被告の団体の幹部２人についても、それぞれ禁錮２１１年と１８６年を言い渡した。
　半国営アナトリア通信によると、オクタル被告は米国を拠点とするイスラム教指導者フェトフッラー・ギュレン師率いる団体を支援した罪でも有罪とされた。ギュレン師についてトルコ政府は、２０１６年のクーデター未遂事件を首謀したと非難している。
　オクタル被告はギュレン師との関係を否定しており、セックスカルト集団を率いているという主張については「都市伝説」だと述べている。
　オクタル被告は昨年１２月の裁判で、１０００人近いガールフレンドがいると話していた。
　１０月に開かれた審理では「私の心は女性たちへの愛であふれている。愛は人間の本質であり、イスラム教徒の本質でもある」と述べた。また別の日には「私は異常に強い」と語っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/01/13-08:56）

A Turkish Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily-clad women on TV was jailed for more than 1,000 years on Monday for sex crimes, local media reported.
Adnan Oktar preached conservative views while women he called his kittens -- many of whom appeared to have had plastic surgery -- danced around him in the TV studio.
The 64-year-old was detained in June 2018 as part of a crackdown on his group by the financial crimes unit of the Istanbul police.
He was sentenced to 1,075 years for crimes including sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud and attempted political and military espionage, the private NTV broadcaster reported.
Some 236 suspects have been on trial in the case, 78 of whom are under arrest, according to the official Anadolu news agency.
The hearings have featured lurid details and harrowing sex crime allegations.
Oktar told the presiding judge in December that he had close to 1,000 girlfriends.
There is an overflowing of love in my heart for women. Love is a human quality. It is a quality of a Muslim, he said in another hearing in October.
He added on another occasion: I am extraordinarily potent.
Oktar first came to public attention in the 1990s when he was the leader of a sect that was caught up in multiple sex scandals.
His online A9 television channel began broadcasting in 2011, drawing denunciations from Turkey's religious leaders.
One of the women at his trial, identified only as CC, told the court that Oktar had repeatedly sexually abused her and other women.
Some of the women he had raped were forced to take contraceptive pills, CC told the court.
Asked about 69,000 contraception pills found in his home by the police, Oktar said they were used to treat skin disorders and menstrual irregularities.
He also dismissed any link to a group led by US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkish authorities accuse of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016.
Oktar is a creationist who rejects the Darwinian theory of evolution and has written a 770-page book called The Atlas of Creation under the pen name, Harun Yahya.