there is no other reason for their detention, their immediate release. 15/6/1944.

Member / Member / Ali Rıza, Chairman of the Court

The members of Denizli Criminal Court all signed the acquittal. ∗∗∗

► (006) ◄ A Conversation with Myself

A Conversation with Myself

[I'm leaving it to your discretion to allow, after correcting it, the departments of government in Ankara to hear this conversation.]

Were the judge to be prosecutor in addition to being judge, it would make unfortunates like myself exclaim: "I'm at a loss to know who I should complain to about whom!" For my situation now is more distressing than when in prison, even. A single day weighs heavier on me than a month's solitary confinement. I have been banned from everything, despite my being a stranger, elderly, ill, weak, and impoverished. I see no one except a child and a sick man. I have anyway suffered the torments of total solitary confinement for twenty years. If they cause me greater distress with their isolating me and their surveillance, it is to be feared that it will cause divine wrath to descend and a natural disaster to occur. As I said in court, there have been numerous events like the four earthquakes that occurred simultaneously with assaults on me. Now I reckon even, that the fire which broke out in Afyon Court may have occurred because it disregarded my application about the Risale-i Nur made to Denizli Court and caused me to despair, although I had relied on it to defend my rights and protect me.

I say: The fair-minded, humane authorities of this town, and its police and judiciary, have a weighty responsibility to protect me. For three courts and the central government gave the decision for our acquittal and release after scrutinizing for nine months all my works and correspondence of twenty years. But in order to reverse our acquittal, a secret society which strives on account of foreign interests to cause this nation and country severe harm, made mountains out of molehills and aroused suspicions