Claim: The "Society to Build a Mosque in Yenişehir, Ankara,” formed on December 8, 1944, by Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, along with seventy-two founding members was the group that rejected the idea of building the Kocatepe Mosque.
Evidence: On December 8, 1944, Ahmet Hamdi Akseki, the Vice-President of Turkish Religious Affairs, along with seventy-two founding members, established a society known as the "Society to Build a Mosque in Yenişehir, Ankara." In 1947 this society called for projects to be drawn up by architects, but none of the submitted projects were accepted.