Biography of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi | PART TWO ( THE NEW SAID ) | 372
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The request was denied and on 30 December, 1944. it confirmed the verdict of the Denizli Court.

• The Sehir Hotel

When Bediuzzaman and his students emerged from the Court, the people of Denizli greeted them with cheers and cries of "Long live justice!", and accompanied them to the prison where they collected their belongings. Outside the prison was like a festival. A string of phaetons came from the town to collect them. They were the guests of Denizli. The people look them into their houses in small groups and offered them the best of whatever they had. A merchant called Haci Mustafa Kocayaka. chosen by the people, had a large sum of money to distribute among Bediuzzaman’s students, but none ; was accepted. And when they went to the station, he and many of the town’s notables came to assist them and see them off onto their trains. Bediuzzaman and the Risale-i Nur had conquered the town.
On leaving the prison, Bediuzzaman moved to a room with fine views on the top floor of the Sehir Hotel in the town, where he was to remain for one and a half months. within one or two days, all his students had dispersed, returning to their home towns and villages. As soon as he was settled, vast numbers of people came to visit him, live hundred or so daily to start with. Then a number continued their visits. Ankara was notified of these. One was a teacher from Erzurum, called Nureddin Topçu, who had drawn the wrath of the notorious Education Minister, Hasan Ali Yücel, on himself with some writings, and had been posted to Denizli by way of a punishment. Part of his interesting account of his visits to Bediuzzaman in the Sehir Hotel is as follows:
"His name was to be heard everywhere in the town; everyone was talking about him... After the acquittal, he settled in a room on the top floor of the Sehir Hotel and was staying there. He was under very close surveillance. Those who visited him were followed in the same way and their names taken. They could only slay with him a very short time. and came out immediately." Nureddin Topçu

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