Turkish jihad leader Kaplan: My Defence is Jihad

Posted by Robert on December 21, 2004 4:52 AM

[1] Metin Kaplan update. From [2] The Turkish Weekly:

Metin Kaplan, who was arrested in Istanbul after being extradited by Germany, is being tried on grounds of attempting to establish a religious law state by destroying the constitution,- supported jihad in his first testimony which he used words of Galileo, Socrates, Mehmet Akif Ersoy and verses of Koran.

Kaplan said:

“when I say jihad, war must not be remembered. It may be in words. Jihad may also be done with publications. The defence we are doing right now is a way of jihad.”...

Kaplan who denied that he described Turkey as the place of war, said: “Turkey is the place of Islam, it is not true that I ordered attacks in several places in Turkey.”


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/12/turkish-jihad-leader-kaplan-my-defence-is-jihad.html

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[1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002773.php
[2] http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=873