used to wait for him along his way, and he would greet them smiling. While we were there, the Govemor and Public Prosecutor came to Emirdag five or six times, and carried out searches. Finally one evening they gathered up ten people from their homes, and the [fve] others from their places of work. They collected Bediuzzaman the following moming, then took them altogether in the police bus to Afyon. And Buralar bozuk cikmis disketteki bozukluktan dolayi. Tekrar yazilmasi gerekiyor. nothing that was harmful at all."3
Although Abduirahman Akgül states above that Bediuzzaman and his studcnts remained three days in the hotel, since it was the 23 January when they were officially arrested and enten:d Afyon Prison, it was a week that the fifteen or so of them stayed there. During this time Students were rounded up in Isparta, Denizli, Afyon, Kastamonu and oLher places and brought to Afyon, making a total of fifty-four who underwent the preliminary questioning. This coincided with a spell of cold weather rarely experienced even in Afyon,3s which has its own micro-climate and where the temperature frequently drops lower than in other places.