Cult leader who 'forced teen sex slaves into cosmetic surgery' jailed for 8,658 years

Turkish Televangelist and sex cult leader Adnan Oktar has been handed a 8,658-year prison sentence for an array of charges including sexual assault, abuse of minors and fraud

A cult leader accused of forcing sex slaves to undergo cosmetic surgeries without anaesthetic has been sentenced to a staggering 8,658 years in prison.

Turkish Televangelist Adnan Oktar, 66, was jailed last year on a string of charges ranging from the sexual abuse of minors to fraud, as well as attempted political and military espionage.

That ruling was eventually overturned but at a retrial today (Wednesday, November 16) Oktar was handed a 8,658-year prison term - an eightfold increase on his original sentence.

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Fourteen of his close associates were also handed lengthy sentences.

Oktar rose to fame off the back of the talk show he hosted on his own A9 TV channel, which mixed Islamic religious debates with apocalyptic ramblings and attractive models wearing exotic makeup, wigs and bondage-style dresses.

The women associated with him were known as "kittens" and his cult boasted some 160 members at one stage.

The idiosyncratic style of Oktar's evolution-denying cult was described as a “sexed-up Disney version of Islam” by anthropologist Daniel Martin Varisco.

Although the kittens were the most vocal advocates of his movement, many who left said they were subjected to sexual abuse.

Seda Isildar, who fled from Oktar's heavily guarded compound in Turkey for Canada, previously told the Sunday Times how she was lured into the cult and forced to undergo a nose job without any pain relief.

She said: "It was horrible. Horrible. I can still remember the hammer. I was counting how many times they were hitting the hammer and the chisel to my nose."

Isildar claimed she was still in school when she was introduced to Oktar, and that she was forced to marry him.

Another woman previously testified at his trial that Oktar sexually assaulted her and others.

She also said they were forced to take contraceptive pills. Police found 69,000 contraceptive pills at his home, which he said were used to treat skin disorders and menstrual problems.

Ceylan Ozgul, another escapee of Oktar's sex abuse, previously explained how people would get indoctrinated into the cult.

She told the Sunday Times: "It didn't happen overnight. It happened over like a year. Even the stupid things started to suddenly make sense to you after a year, because you are thinking it's normal, everyone around you is doing it."

Ugur Sahin claimed he was a teenager when he first heard about Oktar and soon found himself to be one of his 'lions' recruiting women into the cult.

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He said his job was then to seduce them and slowly strip them of their independence until they could be manipulated into sex slaves.

"It's like a race, like you always set a new target and she's trying to catch up with the targets and then at the end of the race you introduce her to Adnan Oktar. At that point Oktar knows what to do," he said.

Sahin reckoned he brought about 200 women into the cult.

Oktar had pleaded not guilty and insisted the accusation he led a sex cult was an “urban legend”.

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