The Mahdi wears Armani | The Messiah and his Kittens Ep. 1

Meet Adnan Oktar, the Turkish televangelist who’s rarely spotted without an entourage of surgically enhanced young women he calls his ‘kittens’. 

After Oktar is sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison, Louise tries to get to grips with one of the strangest stories she has ever covered.

Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Clips: CNN TÜRK, TV100, Anadolu Agency, CBS News, Sky News, A9TV.

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