Coming soon - The Messiah and his Kittens
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
A new four-part investigative series begins this Friday, 28th January, here on the Stories of our times, with further episodes released on following Fridays.
In it, The Sunday Times's award-winning Middle East correspondent Louise Callaghan examines the downfall of Turkey's most powerful cult and its leader, Adnan Oktar.
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| 0:00.0 | Last year a Turkish cult leader was sentenced over a thousand years in jail. |
| 0:05.0 | In a new four-part podcast series, I'm investigating what lay beneath the brash, gaudy exterior of Turkey's most powerful cult. |
| 0:16.0 | There is only one purpose in life and its love. |
| 0:22.0 | But what happened? Everyone is ready in the world right now to believe |
| 0:25.8 | anything. Who exactly were the kittens and the lions, the men and women and the cult? |
| 0:30.5 | Once you're part of that world and in the organization you could kill someone, rape |
| 0:35.0 | someone, steal, it's all down to Adnan Octa's orders. |
| 0:39.2 | And when it all came crashing down, what was left? God will reveal, Miss Radno noctare and my friends are innocent. |
| 0:47.0 | The Messiah and his kittens begins this Friday here on the stories of our times with me Louise Callahan, the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. |
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