ADNAN OKTAR’S INTERVIEW FOR KANAL 47 (MARDIN) (Istanbul, July 2008) 

Turkey will be the greatest country in the Middle East, the Balkans, the Islamic world and the Turkish world. It will be the leading country. The Turkish-Islamic Union will be established. Turkey will be the leader of the Turkish-Islamic Union. 

ADNAN OKTAR’S INTERVIEW WITH KANAL 5 (GAZIANTEP) (20 SEPTEMBER 2008) 

ADNAN OKTAR:Yes. For one thing, we are the continuation of the Ottoman legacy. Second, Islam is best manifested in Turkey. Third, we have the sacred relics. Fourth, we are in the central position. We are in a key position to establish links with Turkic states and Islamic countries and with Europe. We have a very well-educated, intellectual potential. And we are very keen on the subject. We passionately desire the task. Nobody else wants it as passionately as us. That is why the task is ours, insha’Allah.   

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON EKIN TV  (12 JANUARY 2009) 

ADNAN OKTAR: Everything has its expert, doesn’t it? A bakery has its master baker. There are expert metalworkers. Likewise there are expert leaders. That is the Turkish nation. Turkey is the leading country in the Turkish-Islamic world. A leader always has to make his position crystal clear. Seeking a leader causes strife and corruption. The leader has to stand out and be right there. And that is Turkey’s right.  The sacred relics are also in Turkey. And we have the experience. Thanks be to Allah we have a well-educated, intellectual work force with great taqwa. We are a highly rational nation. We are a modest, compassionate and loving nation that is well able to withstand suffering. We are a nation that delight in service and in human happiness. We still strive to bring peace and reconciliation wherever we go. They call on us wherever we go. Come and mediate between us. Israel and Syria are calling on us. Algeria is calling on us. Why? Because they know we are the natural leader. So Turkey should assume the leadership, we will say. The Turkic states are one nation that has been artificially divided. We are one family, and this is a family affair. We have turned to this matter, the Turkish-Islamic Union, as a family. Of course we will join together with the Turkish world, with our brothers, our own family, and with the whole Islamic world to embrace and protect our family. Who else can we do that with? There is a powerful, healthy, sincere, candid, courageous and altruistic nation, one that demands to serve. We say we want to serve. We will serve. We will be the servant of the Islamic world. That is it. But we do not say there is an extraordinary superiority in our genes. We do not claim to be superior in terms of blood or race. We believe that Allah creates everyone equally. But we are an eligible nation in terms of moral values and taqwa, and of administrative skills. That is evident. There can be no objection to that. It is there for all to see, even children can see it. And it is not just us who say it, but the whole Islamic world. They say come and be the leader. We did not claim that for ourselves. They say it themselves. And we have the relics. We are the continuation of the Ottomans, insha’Allah. That is why we will strive to fulfill this great task. And we have not fulfilled this task and our nation has suffered. The Turkish world has suffered. The Islamic world has suffered. And they still are. They are in a terrible state and are crying out for help. That is an obligation, to help those asking for help. Let us join together and hasten to their assistance.  

ADNAN OKTAR’S INTERVIEW FOR KACKAR TV (Istanbul, February 2008) 

ADNAN OKTAR: The Turkish-Islamic Union has long been an ideal of mine. Let us again attain the old glory of Ottoman times. Let Turkey be a great Turkey and shape the whole world. Because the Turkish nation are highly virtuous people. You go to the Black Sea and you encounter excellent moral values, or to Anatolia or to Southeast Anatolia. The finest and most virtuous people in the world are in Anatolia, in Turkey. The logical thing is for these moral values to shape and direct the world and establish justice in it. A German, for instance, has a totally different spirit. He does now know love or hospitality to that same extent. They do not know hospitability. They are less willing to suffer for those they love. Their family ties are not that strong. But that is not so in Anatolia. There, people give food to others rather than eat themselves, and they give the best bed to guests. They will go cold and insists their guests lie in the warm. You cannot find such lofty moral values anywhere else in the world. Everywhere else, selfishness and egoism rule. These moral virtues must rule the world. That can only happen with the Turkish-Islamic Union and under Turkish leadership, with Turkey acting as older brother.   

ADNAN OKTAR’S MPL INTERVIEW    (19 February 2009) 

Allah has appointed this nation. There are a great many hadith about the Turkish nation having a duty. He says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will bring the dispersed Turkish flags back together. He will bring the dispersed Turkic states back together. Look, that is highly significant. The hadith is quite explicit. The Turkic states now need to be amalgamated, for they are a very heroic and self-sacrificing nation. The nation is very careful of its honor and character. It allows nobody to smear its character and honor. That is the nation that will lead the Turkish-Islamic Union. Turkey is the leader, and everyone will see that. Its spiritual capital will be Istanbul. It will be the spiritual capital of the whole Turkish-Islamic world; its political capital is Ankara, and its spiritual capital Istanbul, insha’Allah.  

ADNAN OKTAR’S TIME TURK INTERVIEW (Istanbul, July 2008) 

ADNAN OKTAR: It appears from the accounts that it will be led by the Turks. That is what the account says, and what Said Nursi states. Said Nursi says Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear in Istanbul. It is described as the location of the events of the End Times. He openly says it will be Istanbul, or Turkey in other words. He says that no power can remove it from the bosom of Anatolia. He says those seeds will sprout and that he will watch it from his grave. In other words, he points to it happening in Turkey.