Furkan: Let's turn to the subject of 19. Can you mention briefly the theory of 19?
Edip: All units, that is, letters, words, sentences and chapters of the Quran are mathematically designed on a prime number which was prophesied in a Chapter called "The Hidden One" for more than 14 centuries. The simple to understand but impossible to imitate mathematical harmony, in my opinion, is beyond human capacity to construct. Integration of arbitrary human language with the precise and universal rules of mathematics in the Quran and in the original Bible is a marvel that can be appreciated only by those who study it with critical and truth-seeking mind. The examples of this mathematical design are demonstrated in several books, including my Turkish book "Uzerinde 19 Var" (published by Milliyet Yayinlari) and its forthcoming English version "Code 19".
Furkan: Why do you think most people ignore or disagree with this thesis?
Edip: Because most people follow religious or anti-religious ideas with their hormones, rather than their intellect.
Furkan: Contrary to traditional acceptance of the Islamic world, you concluded that two parts that are regarded as verses at the end of Surat al-Tawba do not actually belong to the Quran. I wonder what you experienced psychologically in the process of this important decision.
Edip: In addition to the mathematical evidence indicating that those two "verses" do not belong to the mathematically designed book (Kitabul Marqum), God blessed me with a personal experience that made me certain about my decision. I begged my Creator for a sign to save me from confusion and guide me the truth. My sincere and persistent search for truth was responded by my Lord. He fulfilled his promise of 41:53 by supporting my faith through BOTH objective and subjective evidences. I believe that every person who seeks the truth and is ready to acknowledge it regardless the cost of such an admission, that person will witness objective and subjective divine signs.

And later in the same interview, Edip Yuksel makes special mention of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He is, in short, a gentleman in a dustcoat trying to make Muslims and non-Muslims hear, but he's still caught in the coils of Islam, and can't get out (said the starling). Now it doesn't often happen that John Crowe Ransom, Laurence Sterne, and Vladimir Nabokov appear in the same sentence, but it does happen. 

Returning to our Eid el-Fitr lambs, we may find unsurprising that Edip Yuksel overlooks the fact that for non-Muslims, the number 19 has entered their consciousnesses as the number of calmly smiling mass murdering Muslims -- mostly Saudis, with that one Egyptian, Mohammad Atta (a frustrated urban-planner whose rage over the destruction of old buildings in Cairo was, in Hamburg, somehow diverted into hatred for the Infidels, the same Infidels who did not treat him, a Muslim, in Hamburg as he thought Muslims should be treated) -- who took direct part in the attacks of September 11, 2001 when the members of that Novemdectet employing their aerodynamical wind instruments to play a murderous theme. And variations on that theme have been played by others before, and also ever since.

In the batty mathematical mystagoguery of Edip Yuksel, the number 19 is an instrument he employs to find a way both to exalt the supposed mathematical structure of the Qur'an (That Must Come Only From God) and, at the same time, to provide tortuous justification for regarding as extra-Qur'anic some verses now found in the Qur'an that he, Edip Yuksel, finds particularly dangerous. This surely will not work.

Edip Yuksel hasn't been able to free himself from the mind-forged manacles of Islam. He cannot, as yet, allow himself to follow the examples of Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Wafa Sultan and many others who, through no fault of their own, were also born into Islam, yet who found the mental stamina, and the moral determination, and the physical courage, not only to jettison that Total Belief-System, but to tell the world about what led to their decision.

Someday he may take that same path, and at long last be able to free himself from the mental desarroi that many of those who engage in apologetics on behalf of Islam so often display. Those who wish him well would certainly wish for such an outcome.