I have come to Afyon today to thank and congratulate you. I thank you for holding our books for so long so that they did not get lost, and congratulate you on now sending them to Ankara. A number of private letters which were written ten years ago by unknown persons to other unknown persons, and some of which were written in my name but were not signed by me and were not published, have been scrutinized by your court and disregarded since they contained nothing reprehensible, So to again take into consideration unpublished letters written long ago about which I know nothing and are covered by the Amnesty Laws and which have nothing to do with the Risale-i Nur, is to preoccupy both the judiciary and the experts' committee unnecessarily. So to avoid that and not to delay our case, I request that those private letters are not associated with the books of the Risale-i Nur.

The judiciary here has twice acquitted those books and handed down the decision to return them, but despite this, for a number of reasons, they have remained in captivity. I inform you that sometimes in their entirety and sometimes in part, five courts of law have given the decision for their return and five police headquarters have handed them over to their owners. God willing, your justice and good will will ensure that they are returned this time too.

In His Name, be He glorified!

Esteemed Adnan Menderes!

Although our Master Bediuzzaman has given up politics these last thirty-five years, we members of the Democrat Party and Nur students are certain that he is now working with all his strength, his students, and his teachings to keep the Democrat Party in power, for the sake of the Qur'an and Islam and this country. We asked him why he is doing this and he replied:

"If the Democrat Party falls, either the People's Party or the Nation Party will come to power. But because of the crimes of the corrupt section of the Unionists (ittihadçılar) and because the greater part of the policies that the Republic's first leader was compelled by the Treaty of Sıvres and other political machinations to enact over fifteen years have been blamed on the People's Party, the noble Turkish nation will on no account voluntarily bring it to power. For if the People's Party comes to power, the communists will gain dominance over the country under cover of it. But Muslims can never be communists; at most, they become anarchists. Muslims cannot be compared to the Westerners. Hence, so that that party which thus forms a serious danger to our society and country, should not come to power, I am trying to protect the Democrat Party in the name of the Qur'an, Islam, and this country.

"As for the members of the Nation Party, if they take only Islam as the basis of their programme, {(*):} they would assist the Democrat Party, and not oppose it and object to it and try to win power themselves. And if they take

racism and Turkism as the basis of their policies, only three out of ten people in this country are true Turks; the majority are of mixed descent. Then as at the beginning of the Second Constitutional Period, a nationalistic partisanship will arise in opposition to this noble and innocent Turkish nation, and the true Turks will be compelled to enter under the yoke of foreigners. Or composed of the other Turkified nations (elements) and impelled by the racialism and racism that exists in this country, relying on foreigners, they will gain supremacy over the innocent Turkish nation. Because such a situation would be fraught with dangers, I teach on account of the Qur'an and the country and nation, that they should ensure the Democrat Party's remaining in power, since it is religious and respectful towards religion."

Respected Adnan Menderes!

Our Master Bediuzzaman's sole purpose is to strive for the well-being of the country and nation and and to teach this. We are quite certain that members of the People's Party and Nation Party who are jealous of the assistance for the Democrat Party of such an esteemed person oppress him on every sort of pretext as though he had brought it to power, and they devise every sort of scheme to make him withdraw his support for it.

We request you with all due respect that as a Prime Minister who has stated: "We shall do whatever religion requires" and "religion presents no problems for this country," you ensure that our Master, who has done so much for our party for the sake of this country, nation, and Islam, is left completely free together with his books, and that he is never again disturbed.