ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KON TV (8 February 2009) 

ADNAN OKTAR:The accounts are quite clear. Our Prophet (saas) spoke quite plainly when he said that Hazrat Mahdi (as) “will bring the dispersed Turkish flags together again.”  

PRESENTER: So he uses the expression Turkish? 

ADNAN OKTAR:Of course, the word Turkish appears very clearly. And he says the Turkish world will be scattered, our Prophet (saas) knew that. He says they will be fragmented under separate banners. He says he will bring the banners back together; he says that first red banners will appear, and then green ones. He means that first the Turkish-Islamic Union will be established. Green is the color of the flags of all Islamic countries, and then green flags will appear, he says. Our Prophet (saas) says he will unite the red and green flags. This is a crystal clear hadith. I have looked at the Muslims gathered together in Lebanon and seen bright red Turkish flags and their own green flags. I have looked at Palestine, bright red Turkish flags and green Palestine flags again, just as described in the hadith.  

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON BASKENT TV (23 January 2009) 

ADNAN OKTAR:Our Prophet (saas) says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will have helpmates, they will be Turks. He says they will be dispersed Turks. As you know, there are various fragmented Turkish peoples. They are all descended from a single nation. Eskisehir was established separately, and then Kayseri. And then Konya, may Allah forbid. These will all combine together and help Hazrat Mahdi (as), says our Prophet (saas). 

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON HILAL TV (24 January 2009) 

ADNAN OKTAR:Accounts in the Ishaduf al-Ragibin say that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come from the Rum, in other words from the Turks, because Turkey used to be known as Land of the Rum. One hadith in Tirmidhi says that Doomsday will not happen until Hazrat Mahdi (as) rules Arabia (mentioned in Tirmidhi), from which it appears that he will not come from among the Arabs. Because in order to rule over the Arabs, one has to be from outside them. (Portents of Doomsday, p. 170) 

Ibni Khaldunand Kurtubî record that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come from the east, from the area to the west of the Caspian Sea, Horasan, and from the Ceyhan River, and these are regions inhabited by Turks.  

Look, he says that Ibrahim ibn Ibeaydullah ibn Ala told his father that Imam Jafar-i Sadiq, a great expert on Islamic law said that Hazrat Ali spoke of the coming of the Qaim (Hazrat Mahdi (as)) after him, and that all the dispersed Turkish flags would combine together to help Hazrat Mahdi (as). In other words, he will combine all the dispersed Turkish states together and will join with them, taking advantage of their strength and thus bring the whole Islamic world together. 

Said Nursi refers to the Turkish nation and the Turkish Army as “a heroic army and a devout nation.” He says the Turkish nation will perform great services and will lead the Turkish-Islamic Union.