Adil Öksüz

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Adil Öksüz (born 1967 in Hacıveliuşağı in Andırın ) is a Turkish assistant professor of Islamic theology at Sakarya University . Öksüz is accused in absentia in several proceedings as the alleged key figure in the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 .

Life

Öksüz studied at the Theological Faculty of Ankara University . Öksüz earned his master's degree at Sakarya University in northwestern Turkey, where he also taught. Öksüz holds the academic degree of candidate for the doçent , the Yardımcı Doçent, and wrote articles for the Islamic magazine "Yeni Ümit".

Öksüz is married and has three children.

Coup attempt allegation

Öksüz is accused of being one of the key figures in the coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 . Öksüz was arrested during the attempted coup at the Akıncı military airfield and brought before the judge. He testified there that the Jandarma did not pick him up at the air force base, but on the street nearby. After the interrogation, Öksüz was released conditionally. Since then Öksüz has been on the run. His release after barely 48 hours in prison, at a time when a wave of arrests was going on across the country, is explained by the fact that the judge was a Gülen supporter.

During the evaluation of the recordings of the security cameras from the evening of July 15 in the Akıncılar air base, Öksüz was targeted by the coup investigators. The air force base is considered to be the headquarters of the coup plotters, from which mutinous pilots in F-16 fighter jets bombed the parliament building. The soldiers apparently did not notice the presence of the theologian in civilian clothes, as numerous officers in civilian clothes were moving around the air force base that day.

The Ministry of the Interior of Turkey has advertised a reward of four million lira , the equivalent of one million euros, for clues about Öksüz's whereabouts that lead to his arrest . Several relatives and people close to him were or are also being prosecuted in connection with the attempted coup. Among them are a brother, several sister-in-law, the in-laws and his professor.

The Turkish press calls Öksüz the “black box of the coup” (darbenin kara kutusu) , “traitor” (hain) , “mufti of the coup” (darbe fetvacısı) , “imam of the air forces” (hava kuvvetleri imamı) and “secret imam of the FETÖ “ (FETÖ'nün mahrem imamı) defamed. In the proceedings against the alleged persons responsible for the coup attempt before the Second Large Criminal Chamber of Sakarya, Öksüz is tried in absentia. The Turkish press regards the fact that the US consulate tried to contact Öksüz by phone as evidence that the coup was controlled by America. The embassy said that an attempt had been made, in accordance with American law, to inform Öksüz that his visa had been canceled because the Turkish police had contacted the American mission to prevent Öksüz from escaping.

At the beginning of April 2017, the Turkish secret service MIT made a statement to the public, in which it said that the Islamic theologian Adil Öksüz had neither worked for the Turkish secret service nor was he its informant. On August 1, 2017, a trial against the absent Öksüz and his co-defendants began in Ankara. As evidence of the connections to Gülen, the Turkish media published a video that Öksüz and his children are supposed to show years ago at Gülen. Another picture that shows Öksüz with Gülen and, according to the press, presumably dates from the 1990s, was found during a search of Öksüz's apartment.

In mid-August 2017, the Turkish Foreign Ministry applied for Öksüz to be extradited from the Federal Republic of Germany if he was there. According to previously unconfirmed Turkish media reports, Öksüz has applied for asylum in Baden-Württemberg. The news agency Anadolu reported, citing diplomatic circles in Ankara and Berlin, that the note was transmitted around July 13, 2017. According to Turkish newspapers, Öksüz was seen in Frankfurt am Main and Ulm . At the request of Zeit Online , the Ministry of the Interior in Baden-Württemberg neither wanted to confirm nor deny the asylum application, and the Federal Ministry of the Interior did not want to comment either.

In November 2017, the German police in order to stay determination wanted by Öksüz. At a meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Goslar in January 2018, Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stated that it was not certain that Öksüz was even in Germany.

The Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced in June 2018 that Öksüz is suspected to be in Berlin-Neukölln and published the address of the apartment in Berlin-Neukölln in which Öksüz is said to be hiding via the Turkish news agency Anadolu. Turkey requested his extradition. The federal government refused to extradite him to Turkey.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cumhuriyet, August 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Was Adil Öksüz the top putschist? , FR, August 18, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Rhyming and inconsistent in Ankara , FAZ, August 17, 2017
  4. ↑ from October 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Sabah, October 13, 2016
  6. ↑ Akşam of July 24, 2017
  7. ↑ Star from January 18, 2017
  8. ^ NTV of August 8, 2016
  9. ↑ www.karar.com of June 23, 2016
  10. ^ NTV of March 29, 2017
  11. ↑ Turkish government suspects putschist leader in Germany , Die Zeit, August 16, 2017
  12. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/tuerkei-putsch-bundesregierung-101.html
  13. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich, Susanne Güsten: Turkish media publish the Berlin address of Erdogan's opponents . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . June 14, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 15, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Öksüz, Adil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish defendant in a trial against putschists in Turkey in 2016
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hacıveliuşağı , Andırın , Turkey