Ex Gulen Charter School Student on Podcast "Stuff they Don't want you to know"

http://www.stufftheydontwantyoutoknow.com/podcasts/the-gulen-movement.htm

Ex Gulenists tell of extortion by Gulen Cult

Since Ersin Konkur was a 15-year-old living in Turkey, he has been influenced by 

the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who now lives in Pennsylvania and preaches 

a moderate version of Islam and the teaching of science and math in schools worldwide.

Konkur was tutored by college students who were part of the movement, assistance that

Helped him get into one of the best universities in Istanbul.  But after Konkur came to the 

United States to teach math at schools inspired by Gulen's movement, his experience

 was markedly different.  According to Konkur, Turkish teachers at charter schools in 

Texas and Utica were required to pay a portion of their taxpayer-funded salaries back to

 the schools. When he ultimately refused to pay the "tithe," Konkur says, he was fired in 

2015 from the Utica Academy of Science.

The school strongly denies forcing the payment of any sort of kickback.

Konkur, who says he gave back about $10,000 of his salary over his first year teaching in 

Utica, provided the Times Union with what he said were copies of checks he wrote to 

charities in Rochester that share an address with a prominent arm of the Gulen movement.

According to a March report by CBS News, the FBI is investigating whether money is

 being skimmed from taxpayer-funded charter schools in America that are aligned with

 Gulen, with the goal of funding his movement in Turkey. More than 140 schools in 

the United States, which focus on the teaching of math and science, are considered

 to be part of the movement.

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In upstate New York, schools that observers believe are Gulen-inspired operate in Buffalo,

 Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. The schools and their governing boards are dominated by 

Turkish men, many of them here on visas meant for highly skilled workers.Ersoy also stressed

 that Konkur had met with Robert Amsterdam, an attorney retained

 by the Turkish government to research and file litigation targeting the Gulen movement.

 Turkey's increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, blames Gulen 

— who fled from Turkey in 1999 — for fomenting a July 2016 coup attempt f

rom Pennsylvania, a charge Gulen denies.

"Since leaving (Utica Academy), Mr. Konkur has been a constant critic of the school

, spreading misrepresentations about it and its personnel whenever an opportunity

 presents itself — just as he has with you," Ersoy said. "To be very clear, the allegations you 

report that he made to you regarding UASCS are entirely false. I would point out that if these 

things had occurred, Mr. Konkur could and should have reported them to the New York State 

Department of Labor or the U.S. Department of Labor, which would have investigated 

and addressed any such conduct. However, he never reported these allegations to any governmental agency."

http://www.caller.com/story/news/education/2017/06/30/school-science-and-technology-open-new-campus/429801001/

Gulen Charter Schools under US scrutiny

FETO, a designated terror group in Turkey, has established itself abroad through companies, foundations, media outlets and charter schools.

The leader of the network, Fethullah Gulen is accused by Turkey of being behind a bloody coup attempt which left 249 people dead and more than 2,000 injured in the country last July. 

Gulen, currently living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has denied the charge and continues to fight against  Ankara's extradition demands.  

His movement controls 163 schools across the country, teaching around 70,000 students. Now some schools linked to his network have come under investigation in the US over allegations of financial misconduct.

"In the state of New Jersey alone, a chain of charter schools is linked to the Gulen Movement, also known as FETO. The organisation's attempt to launch a fifth school in this state was denied, after the board of education said it had used "forged and fraudulent" petitions to show community support for its initiative,"  Ersin Konkur, a former maths teacher in a Gulen-linked school, told TRT World. 

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An unnamed “senior U.S. State Department official” told reporters Tuesday that American law enforcement evidence suggests that Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen operates his charter schools like an “organized crime” syndicate, not a religious group, and that Turkey’s demands to extradite Gulen for criminal activity “may have some merit.”

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Gulen of orchestrating the failed coup d’etat defeated on July 15 and infiltrating the nation’s military, civilian law enforcement, and educational infrastructure to establish a “cult” to Gulen within Turkey.

The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet cites the unnamed official as saying that Gulen’s Hizmet Islamic organization operates “a lot like the ways in which organized crime sets itself up by folks who are trying to hide money for money laundering,” rather than what it presents itself as: “a benign religious movement.” He added that Turkey’s claims that Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, should be extradited for his role in the failed coup “may have some merit,” though he did not elaborate.

Hizmet supporters describe the movement as “a ‘faith-inspired collectivity’ with millions of followers and sympathizers who draw on Islamic spirituality and teaching, constituting one of the largest civil movements.” The movement operates more than 1,000 schools worldwide, including 150 in the United States, which operate on taxpayer subsidies. Gulen himself argues that Hizmet (“service”) is a moderate Islamic alternative that has a role to play in the eradication of radical Islam.

Gulen opponents, including the government of Turkey, argue that, instead, Hizmet is a cult centered around Gulen in which adherents are encouraged to aid in the overthrow of the Turkish government to establish Gulen as the nation’s leader.

The U.S. government has not weighed in officially on these accusations, though America’s Hizmet schools have run into problems of their own. The FBI raided 19 of the schools in 2014, citing discrepancies in the group’s finances.

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The Turkish government has made multiple official requests for Gulen’s extradition, citing the July 15 coup attempt and comparing the Hizmet movement to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, calling them both “CIA projects.” Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag visited Washington last week to personally encourage his American counterpart Loretta Lynch to begin the extradition process.

In public comments, Bozdag compared Gulen to Osama bin Laden, citing him as an equivalent danger to the stability of the Turkish government. “Whatever Osama bin Laden means for the United States and the American people, Fethullah Gulen means the same for Turkey and the Turkish people,” he said, comparing the coup attempt to “an assassination attempt on President Obama and his family, where the White House was bombed [and] … tanks were marching the streets [and] … 241 U.S. civilians were killed and around 3,000 were wounded.”

While Turkey has sent thousands of files to Washington related to the Gulen case, by late August, American officials confirmed that none of those documents appeared to have anything to do with the failed coup. “The evidence is crystal clear. We know the terrorist cult responsible for the vicious attacks against us and the Turkish people. We simply cannot understand why the U.S. cannot just hand over this individual,” Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said at the time, shortly before U.S. officials – and Turkish government spokespeople – confirmed that they had not yet compiled evidence linking Gulen to the coup.

Last week, Turkish officials said they finally handed over the relevant evidence regarding Gulen and the failed coup.

Meanwhile, the Turkish government has continued to crack down on individuals and media organizations it claims has an affiliation to Gulen. This week, Turkish police shut down 15 media outlets and arrested multiple senior staffers at the newspaper Cumhuriyet, the nation’s premier secularist opposition newspaper. Cumhuriyet grew to international recognition after facing government suppression for agreeing to publish a Turkish-language inset of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following a jihadist attack on its headquarters. Cumhuriyet later published a report accusing Turkey’s intelligence agency, the MIT, of supplying weapons to Syrian rebels. For that, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, received a five-year prison sentence. Dündar eventually escaped to Germany.

Turkey has arrested, detained, or fired from state jobs more than 100,000 people in relation to Gulen and the July 15 coup attempt.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/11/01/u-s-gulen-islamist-schools-organized-crime-not-benign-religious-movement/

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