From 2007 to 2009 the local Chief Public Prosecutor in Erzincan, İlhan Cihaner, investigated the community and ordered wire-tapping after reports of the community offering unauthorised Koran courses and preventing girls from attending school.
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According to Ahmet Hakan Coşkun, the sect requires strict clothing, with members wearing beards, Kaftans, and shalwar trousers, and turbans of white muslin when praying.