A Turkish (of Kurdish descent) activist, Edip Yüksel, initially campaigned for a Quranist-Islamic revolution in Turkey, which is why he was imprisoned.[126] Later he met Khalifa and joined the organisation after witnessing the "19 miracle".[127] In 1989 he had to leave the country because of this and joined the headquarters in Tucson.[128] Yüksel and two other authors created their own translation of the Quran.[129] In some points, however, his views differ from those of Khalifa.[130]