The suspects were detained on the charges of distributing the March issue of “Köklü Değişim” magazine, which has a cover that featured a call for the re-establishment of the Caliphate.

“After the detentions in Sanliurfa, 7 Muslims were detained in raids on their homes in Gaziantep this morning on the charges of distributing the March issue of ‘Köklü Değişim’ magazine, which has a cover that featured a call for the re-establishment of the Caliphate, and bringing up the subject of the Caliphate during their visits,” tweeted Mahmut Kar, the head of the Hizb-ut Tahrir Turkey Media Office.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Party of Liberation) is an international Islamic organization whose stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate to unite the Muslim community.

The party was founded in 1953 as a political organization in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine state, by Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, an Islamic scholar from Haifa who was educated in Egypt and served as a religious court judge (Qadi) in Palestine.

The party rejects the use of violence to bring about political change.