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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey · 2023

Turkey: imam sentenced to twenty-seven years for abusing a twelve-year-old Quran-course student

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam running a mosque Quran course

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

CORE: a child sent to learn the Quran, under the man teaching it.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2023-01-01 · conviction; confirmed on appeal

    Tarsus 1st Heavy Penal Court; Adana Regional Court, 12th Criminal Division (appellate). Mehmet D., 59, an imam running a mosque Quran course, was convicted of qualified sexual abuse of a minor and unlawful deprivation of liberty against a twelve-year-old student of the course, and sentenced to twenty-seven years and six months. The Adana regional appellate court confirmed the conviction.

Appellate history

  1. Date in cited record · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-teacher authority over a Quran-course student
  • unlawful deprivation of the child's liberty

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Cumhuriyet: 'Kuran kursunda çocuk istismarı: sanık imama 27,5 yıl hapis'.

Turkish national daily's court report.

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