ADD filed a criminal complaint against Minister of National Education Tekin.

The Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) filed a criminal complaint with the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office due to the statements made by Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin, who said, "Locking the doors of mosques, turning mosques into stables, prohibiting citizens from learning the Quran. This is what you understand from secularism."

In its complaint, ADD requested an investigation against Tekin for the crimes of "attempting to overthrow the constitutional order," "abuse of office," and "inciting or degrading the public to hatred and hostility" under the Turkish Penal Code, and demanded the initiation of a public lawsuit.

In the petition submitted by ADD to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, it was stated, "The principle of secularism, which is regulated in Article 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey and is one of the fundamental characteristics of the state, has been completely disregarded. Moreover, since the owner of the aforementioned statements is sitting in the chair of the Ministry of National Education, to which the education of young people is entrusted, it is unacceptable for him to attempt to create a personal definition of secularism based on completely false and hearsay information, and to criticize secularism, one of the most fundamental principles of the Constitution, without providing any examples of mosques that have been 'turned into stables' or 'locked up'."