the kaymakam, and the judiciary, and phoned Afyon, and creating a furore had the books handed over to the court. The books, however, consisted of the following: five were court defences and their addenda, and three were works the acquittal of which the present Minister of Justice, Halil Özyörük, had three times ordered and Denizli Court had returned. Afyon Court, too, quashed their judgement and had acquitted them.

It's true that Fuat Sirmen, who is the former Justice Minister and a communist, had denounced the works to the former Cabinet and had attempted to have the four-hundred-page Zülfikar Collection — which is a completely strue and beneficial commentary on the Qur'an — prohibited on the pretext of two pages about two verses written thirty years earlier, whereas now the works of the communists and Masons are permitted despite being extremely harmful for the nation and country. So we suggest that to subject this most true and useful commentary on the Qur'an which — as is testified to by thousands of people — has saved the belief of thousands to such treatment as though it consisted of harmful rags, and to cause our Master such sorrow just when he is ill and vulnerable because of his brother, was illegal in multiple ways.

Secondly: An extremely devious and hidden aspect of this matter was this: our Master had gently encouraged his students to assist the Democrat Party materially and morally. The obdurate tyrants of the People's Party understood this, so making mountains out of a molehill, they instigated this incident. For everywhere these books were being sent hither and thither by post and from Istanbul and other places, and there was no interference. The incident was part of a cunning and unforeseen stratagem.

Thirdly: The former government is now being criticized in the press a thousand times more harshly than the two aforementioned verses in Zülfikar, so the interpretation of them can in no way be considered culpable. It is understood from this that the treatment mentioned above was a continuation of the People's Party's abitrary measures, and an example of their assertions that although the government is in the hands of the Democrats, true power and the actual executive remains in their hands.

In the name of the Emirdağ Nur students,

Mehmed, Ibrahim, Ziya, etc, ∗∗∗