Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Harun Yahya website (https://www.harunyahya.info— the "Site") and all of its content. By using the Site you agree to these Terms.

Last Updated: May 25, 2026

Free Access

The Site is free to access. No registration, subscription or payment is required. All articles, books, videos, audio recordings, images, quotes and other works (collectively "Content") are published under the public-access principles described on our Copyright page.

Permitted Uses of the Content

In line with Mr. Adnan Oktar's long-standing public declaration that his works are free to be copied, shared and distributed provided the source is cited, the following uses of the Content are explicitly permitted:

  • Personal and educational use: reading, downloading, printing, saving, and sharing for personal study, teaching, research or non-commercial dissemination.
  • Republishing and redistribution: republishing the Content in books, articles, websites, social media, broadcast media or any other medium, including for commercial publishing, provided the source is cited. The author does not seek any royalty.
  • Translation and adaptation: translating the Content into other languages and adapting it for accessibility (audiobooks, subtitles, summaries, infographics, etc.).
  • Quoting and excerpting: citing passages in academic, journalistic or critical work.

Attribution is requested in all cases. A typical attribution is: "Source: Harun Yahya (https://www.harunyahya.info)."

Use by Search Engines, Crawlers, AI Systems and Bots

We explicitly permit automated systems to access, index, store and use the Content of the Site, subject to good-faith use. This permission covers, but is not limited to:

  • Search engines (Google, Bing, Yandex, etc.) — crawling, indexing and displaying the Content in search results, including rich snippets and answer boxes.
  • Web archives (Internet Archive, etc.) — capturing snapshots of the Site for historical preservation.
  • Artificial intelligence and language model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, xAI, Mistral, Cohere, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Hugging Face and similar) — using the Content as part of training corpora, fine-tuning datasets, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, embeddings, summarisation, question-answering and any other model-building activity.
  • Research crawlers (Common Crawl, academic projects, dataset builders) — collecting the Content for inclusion in publicly available datasets.
  • Aggregators and assistants — incorporating the Content into reading apps, study aids, AI chat assistants, voice assistants and similar products that surface the Content to end users.

No prior request or written authorisation is required. We do not impose "noindex" or AI opt-out signals on the Content; if such signals appear in robots.txt, meta tags or HTTP headers in error, the permission stated here prevails. Attribution to https://www.harunyahya.info is appreciated wherever feasible (for example in generated answers and dataset cards), but is not a condition of use.

This permission is granted in the spirit of disseminating the works as widely as possible. It does not constitute a transfer of moral rights nor a waiver of the requirement to use the Content in good faith (see "Acceptable Use" below).

Acceptable Use

While use of the Content is broadly permitted, we ask that all users — including AI systems and automated republishers — observe the following good-faith principles:

  • Do not present the Content in a way that distorts its meaning, removes essential context, or attributes statements to the author that he did not make.
  • Do not combine the Content with defamatory, hateful, fraudulent or illegal material in a way that implies endorsement.
  • Do not pass off the Content as your own original work without attribution.
  • Do not use the Content in a way that violates applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
  • Crawl politely: respect reasonable request rates so that the Site remains responsive for human visitors.

No Advertising, No Monetisation by Us

The Site itself displays no advertising, contains no paywall and runs no monetisation scheme. Third parties remain free to monetise their own republications of the Content, but the Site itself is offered as a gift, not as a commercial product.

Accuracy of Content

We make reasonable efforts to keep the Content accurate and up to date. However, the Content is provided "as is" and may contain typographical errors, outdated references or unintentional inaccuracies. The Site is not a substitute for professional advice on legal, medical, financial or other specialised matters.

Third-Party Links and Embeds

The Site may link to or embed content from third parties (e.g. video platforms, social media, mapping services). We do not control these third parties and are not responsible for their content, policies or practices. Your interaction with third-party services is governed by their own terms.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Site, its operators and the author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, the Site or the Content, including damages caused by viruses, system failures, or third-party services linked from the Site.

Privacy

Your use of the Site is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes the anonymous analytics we run and the third-party services we use.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. When we do, the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page will be revised. Continued use of the Site after any update constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use are interpreted in line with applicable international and Turkish law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you may have under mandatory consumer-protection or data-protection laws of your country of residence.

Contact

For questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at https://www.harunyahya.info/en/contact.