Caliphate State: what Wikipedia removed
Caliphate State is a Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne, Germany, banned by the German government in 2001. The opening snapshot from just before October 7, 2023 stated that “Metin Kaplan plead his innocence despite constantly praising the attack as a Jihad.” The opening today says only that the group is Turkish and Islamist and was banned in 2001, though the word survives 3 times in the body. A reader today learns the group was banned by Germany but not that its leader praised a violent attack as jihad while denying guilt.
The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| jihad | 1 | 0 |
| islamist | 2 | 2 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- Metin Kaplan’s praise of an attack as jihad while pleading innocence, dropped from the opening; the word survives 3 times in the body.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”6 October 2023 (revision 1178821082):
Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne, Germany Caliphate State ( Template:Lang-tr ; Template:Lang-de ) is a Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne , Germany. It was founded in 1984 as the Union of Islamic Community and Associations in Cologne by Cemalettin Kaplan. It started to use the name Anatolian Federated Islamic State in 1992 and the Caliphate State in March 1994. It is strongly against the Republic of Turkey , it also views Diyanet and DİTİB as unauthentic and corrupt. With the death of Cemalettin Kaplan in 1995, his son Metin Kaplan took over the leadership of the organization. Metin Kaplan, who led the organization during its attempted attack on Turkish Republic Day , was arreste…
2025 (revision 1265965757):
Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne, Germany Caliphate State ( Turkish : Hilâfet Devleti ; German : Kalifatstaat ) is a Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne , Germany. It was banned by the German government in 2001.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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