Ankara for a second time, and again stayed in the Beyrut Palas Hotel. His visit was greeted with sensational headlines in the newspapers: "The Said Nursi Event has started to grow" (Cumhuriyet) "Said Nursi has again come to Ankara...." (Milliyet) "Said Nursi's eventful visit to Konya...Thousands of Nurcus poured onto the streets to greet him: the police were compelled to break up the crowd..." Bediuzzaman received numerous visitors in the hotel: politicians and officials, including three Democrat Deputies, Risale-i Nur Students and ordinary people. The police again over-reacted and the hotel was both held in a cordon of police and gendarmes, and the inside was filled with them. That evening, Bediuzzaman gave a `farewell ders', which among various subjects, impresses once again on the Risale-i Nur Students that the way of the Risale-i Nur is that of "positive action" and the maintenance of public order and security.
Previously to Bediuzzaman's coming to Ankara, the police had seized copies of The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen Collection in the press while Said Özdemir and others were having it printed. In connection with this, Bediuzzaman received a request from Bekir Berk in Istanbul for a signature. At the same time he was receiving invitations from his students there. The following day he set off in his car for Istanbul.
It was the first day of January, 1960. The newspapers had got wind of his visit and b the time he and his students reached the Piyer Loti Hotel where he was to stay, there was such a thronging crowd, it was only with the greatest difficulty that they could mount the steps to enter it. Bediuzzaman had to be shielded against the barrage of flashing cameras with an umbrella. Police had taken over the inside of the hotel, and the press had set up a headquarters there. Nevertheless, that evening, with astonishing energy, Bediuzzaman gave a long ders to his students gathered in Istanbul. He was to have stayed several days but the following day, 2 January, a newspaper repoerter climbed onto the back balcony of his room and phtographed him performing the midday prayers. Bediuzzaman was exceedingly angry at this and decided to cut short his visit and