also ended in acquittals. And in 1956, a case was brought against Bediuzzaman and eighty-nine Risale-i Nur Students in Isparta for "forming a secret society", which was dismissed as not being proven. Then in Ankara, Isparta, and many other places were further cases against Risale-i Nur Students, all of which ended in acquittals. In the face of the confiscations and the Afyon Court proceedings in the early 1950's, Bediuzzaman wrote a number of petitions to the president and other ministers, and for the Appeal Court and to be distributed by his students among "religious deputies" of the National Assembly, pointing out the realities of the case. [^16]

[^16]:Ibid., 53-4; 23-4.

#### Korea

Korea

Bediuzzaman supported the decision to send Turkish troops to Korea to fight the communist invasion from the north, and was delighted when his close student Bayram Yüksel was to be sent there in 1951 during his military service, saying; "I wanted to send a Risale-i Nur Student to Korea and was thinking of either you or Ceylan. The atheism there has to be combated," Bediuzzaman also supported Turkey joining NATO. He gave Bayram Yüksel his own Jaushan al-Kabir prayer book and some parts of the Risale-i Nur to give to the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army whom he knew from when he first came to Istanbul in 1907. Bayram Yüksel went to Korea with Bediuzzaman's blessing, and fighting in some of the fiercest battles of the war, came out unscathed. He also visited Japan, and gave the parts of the Risale-i Nur to the National Library in Tokyo, since the commander-in-chief had departed this life some years previously. [^17]

[^17]:Bayram Yüksel, in Son Şahitler, i, 392-6; Şahiner, Said Nursi, 383-4.

#### Eskişehir and Isparta

Eskişehir and Isparta

After years of being confined to the place he had been exiled, very often not even being allowed to attend the mosque or walk out to take exercise, Bediuzzaman was now free to move about as he wished, In October of 1951 he went to Eskişehir, where he stayed in the Yıldız Hotel. He met there with many of his students, of all classes, and the young in particular. Members of the armed forces also visited him, with airmen being in the majority. After a month or so, Bediuzzaman moved on to Isparta, where he stayed for some two months, until summoned to Istanbul to stand trial together with one of his students at Istanbul University, Muhsin Alev, who had printed A Guide for Youth.