On February 20 2009, corresponding to the 26th of Safar 1430 Hijri, Yilmaz Celik, the official spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Turkey, was released after the completion of his sentence. He was imprisoned on charges of membership of Hizb ut Tahrir and working to replace the secular regime in Turkey with the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" state.