Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Ümraniye, Istanbul, Turkey · 2024

Turkey: Süleymancı boys' dormitory imam sentenced to 28 years for abusing an 11-year-old resident

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam/religious supervisor at a Süleymancı-affiliated boys' religious dormitory (yurt), Ümraniye

Organization

Özel Osmangazi Arifiye Ortaokul Erkek Öğrenci Yurdu (Süleymancı-affiliated boys' dormitory), Ümraniye, Istanbul

Spiritual nexus

As the dormitory's imam, the defendant held both the religious authority of the Süleymancı order that ran the boys' residence and the custodial authority of overnight care — the combination is what left an 11-year-old resident alone with him.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-06-06 · criminal conviction and sentence

criminal court, Istanbul, Turkey. The defendant, an imam who had worked at the Süleymancı-affiliated boys' religious dormitory for four to five years with responsibility for the children's overnight care and supervision, was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of an 11-year-old resident and sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment without reduction.

Documented coercion mechanisms

combined custodial and religious authority over a resident child
overnight supervisory access at the dormitory

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting sentencing report Cumhuriyet, 'Süleymancıların yurdunda çocuk istismarı: İmam 28 yıl hapis cezası aldı' [Child abuse at the Süleymancı dormitory: imam gets 28-year prison sentence] (6 June 2024).: Reports the dormitory's Süleymancı religious affiliation, the imam's four-to-five-year tenure with overnight custodial responsibility for the children, the 11-year-old victim, the aggravated sexual abuse conviction, and the 28-year sentence without reduction.

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