Messages attributed to Baş were cited as evidence that she attended gatherings linked to the Gülen movement, collected donations and arranged newspaper subscriptions. The app, once widely available on Apple’s App Store and Google Play, is claimed by Turkish authorities to have been used as a secret communication tool by members of the Gülen movement. Her conviction was upheld by an appeals court in 2018 and by the Supreme Court of Appeals in January 2023. It said this approach created an almost automatic presumption of guilt, effectively treating membership in a terrorist organization as an offense of strict liability. In addition to the thousands who were jailed, scores of other Gülen movement followers had to flee Turkey to avoid the government crackdown.