How a Turkish Cleric's Network Has Penetrated the Clinton Campaign and American Edu

[valley ranch]

http://www.theblaze....ican-education/



How a Turkish Cleric's Network Has Penetrated the Clinton Campaign and
American Education
By Ariel Cohen
Feb. 1, 2016

[Ariel Cohen, PhD, is Director, Center for Energy, Natural Resources
and Geopolitics and Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Analysis of
Global Security]

As America increases its global ties and interacts with foreign ways
and cultures, it imports the good, the bad and the ugly.

A Turkish Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen, who resides in
Pennsylvania, appears to have brought an unhealthy mix of politics and
religion to his country of asylum.

Gulen has built a global religious movement, which has attracted some
5 to 8 million followers worldwide (the exact number is unknown). In
the process, some of his followers have apparently amassed tremendous
wealth--the Gulen-affiliated net business worth exceeds $25 billion.

[Peter1469]

Lots of people bought Hillary. Don't forget, she is not just about to be indicted for violations of the Espionage Act. She is also being investigated for public corruption.

[waltky]

Mebbe he could move to Sweden...

U.S. delegation in Turkey to discuss possible extradition of Fetullah Gulen
Aug. 23, 2016 -- Vice President Joe Biden is in Turkey along with several high-ranking government representatives to discuss the possible extradition of Muslim cleric Fetullah Gulen.

Three officials from the U.S. Justice Department and another from the State Department arrived in the capital, Ankara, late Monday night, two sources confirmed to the Adadolu Agency. The planned talks also were confirmed by two senior Turkish officials to Al-Jazeera. The delegation spoke with officials from Turkey's Ministry of Justice for International Law and Ministry of Foreign Affairs early Tuesday morning, the sources told Adadolu Agency. And talks also are scheduled for Wednesday, according to the Al-Jazeera sources. Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday.

Turkey's government has said the failed coup, which left 240 people dead and nearly 2,200 injured, was organized by followers of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the Saylorsburg, Pa. since 1999, and by his social service organizations in Turkey, which the government of Turkey has together labeled the "Fetullah Terrorist Organization." Erdogan has appealed to the United States for the return of Gulen numerous times and has said the United States has to "choose between Turkey and Gulen." "It is bizarre for us that they [the U.S.] have not been convinced, considering the scope of evidence we presented to them," Yasin Aktay, the deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party, told Al-Jazeera. "Even this meeting should not have been necessary."

Biden will meet with Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to emphasize "ongoing strong support" for Turkey after the foiled coup, the White House said Monday. "That is a coup attempt that was roundly and publicly condemned by the United States government and we continue to strongly support the democratic government of our allies in Turkey," spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. The U.S. vice president will reiterate that efforts to extradite Gulen would be governed by "an extradition treaty that's been on the books between the United States and Turkey for more than 30 years," Earnest said. It's "not a presidential decision," said Earnest, but a decision for the Justice Department. Biden first traveled Monday to Riga, Latvia. After visiting Turkey, the vice president heads to Stockholm, Sweden.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...?spt=sec&or=tn

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US Rebuffs Turkish Demand for Immediate Return of Cleric Ankara Blames for Failed Coup
August 24, 2016 - The United States held firm Wednesday in rebuffing Turkey's demand that it immediately extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara blames for last month's failed military coup, saying it has yet to receive any evidence linking him to the putsch.

On a one-day visit to Ankara, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told a news conference that the United States has "no interest in protecting anyone who has done harm to an ally." He said the U.S. is continuing to cooperate with Turkish officials in analyzing claims about Gulen's purported actions linked to the attempted coup that left 240 people dead. But in an article published in Turkey's Milliyet newspaper, Biden said that while Turkey has sent Washington information about the 75-year-old Gulen's "alleged activities predating the attempted coup, we have not yet received an extradition request or any evidence from Turkey relating to the attempted coup." Biden told the news conference he understood Turkey's anger at the U.S. delay in handling the extradition request, but said a U.S. court must consider whether there are legitimate legal grounds to arrest him and turn him over to Turkish authorities based on the extradition treaty between the two countries.

Journalists are seen gathered outside a court building to support a colleague who was detained in connection with the investigation launched into the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey, in Istanbul

Gulen has lived in self-exile on a compound in the northeastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania since 1999 and has denied any involvement in the attempt to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey has arrested or fired 80,000 government workers, judges, academics and school teachers it believes were sympathetic to Gulen or somehow involved in the coup attempt launched by a group of renegade military officers. Erdogan, on vacation the night of the coup attempt, says he narrowly escaped being captured before government forces loyal to Ankara repelled dissidents looking to overthrow him. Biden sought to dispel any notion of U.S. complicity in the uprising, calling those who carried out the attack "cowardly, treasonous." "We did not have any fore-knowledge," he said. "The people of the United States abhor what happened. The people of Turkey have no greater friend than the United States of America."

Smoke billows on the Syrian side, pictured from Karkamis, Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said any disputes with the U.S., a NATO ally, should not be allowed to harm their long-term friendship. But Yildirim said he wants the extradition proceedings to be conducted without delay. Biden's visit to the Turkish capital came as Ankara's military forces, working in tandem with U.S. jet fighters, launched their first offensive into Syria to target Islamic State militants and Kurdish fighters in the aftermath of last weekend's suicide bombing of Kurdish wedding in a nearby Turkish town that killed at least 54. Erdogan has blamed Islamic State for the attack.

http://www.voanews.com/a/us-rebuffs-...n/3479026.html

[waltky]

Gulen's charter schools come under scrutiny...

US schools linked to Gulen bending under pressure
Tue, Sep 27, 2016 - A network of more than 150 US charter schools linked to followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric the Turkish government blames for instigating July’s failed coup, has come under growing financial and legal strain, according to school officials, current and former members of Gulen’s movement and public records reviewed by reporters.

The publicly financed schools, a key source of jobs and business opportunities for US members of Gulen’s global movement, have sharply slowed their expansion in recent years, public records showed. The slowdown comes amid a series of government probes in more than a dozen states into allegations ranging from misuse of taxpayer funds to visa fraud. The investigations launched by state and federal officials have not resulted in criminal charges or directly implicated Gulen, whose name is not on any of the charter schools. The increased pressure on the schools also comes as the Turkish government is cracking down on Gulen supporters at home and presses hard for Gulen’s extradition. Just six new schools were opened between last year and this year to date, down from a peak of 23 new schools in 2010, according to a review of the public records of 153 charter schools and their management companies around the US.

The decline runs counter to the steady growth over the past six years of all US charter schools, which receive taxpayer funds, but are exempt from some rules that govern traditional state-run public schools. At the same time, 15 schools have been closed or transferred to owners with no connection to Gulen’s movement since 2010. In at least 11 of those cases — including in Georgia, California, Pennsylvania and Ohio — the management firms or individual schools themselves had faced official investigations, reporters found. “Since these investigations and pressures from media coverage have been going on, the schools are much more, maybe five times more careful, in terms of their finances, how they hire contractors,” said Hakan Berberoglu, acting executive director of the Illinois-based Niagara Foundation, which aims to promote the interfaith dialogue espoused by Gulen, its honorary president. “They are much more careful in how they expand,” he told reporters.

Berberoglu said that the schools are not officially affiliated with Gulen and are not centrally controlled by anyone. In another sign of a slowdown, the number of visa applications the schools submitted for guest workers from Turkey and other countries declined from more than 1,000 in 2010 to 360 last year, immigration records showed. The trend reflects a desire by the schools linked to Gulen followers to avoid further government scrutiny, according to current and former members of the movement.

In the wake of the failed coup, Ankara’s attorneys in the US have stepped up an aggressive campaign to try to persuade local, state and federal authorities to open new inquiries and discredit the charter schools and other US operations linked to Gulen. Asked about signs that the movement is under stress in the US, Alp Aslandogan, Gulen’s spokesman, said: “We are not worried about that.” Many Gulen supporters in Turkey are now looking to their US-based brethren for material support and safe haven, according to current and former members of the movement. “It’s been my job to save people, to help people who want to come over here,” said one US-based Turkish businessman, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his efforts to assist would-be immigrants.

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[exploited]

Gulen is a hero, and Turkey, under Ergodan, is an enemy. I hope Gulen has thoroughly infiltrated the Democrat Party.

[donttread]

http://www.theblaze....ican-education/



How a Turkish Cleric's Network Has Penetrated the Clinton Campaign and
American Education
By Ariel Cohen
Feb. 1, 2016

[Ariel Cohen, PhD, is Director, Center for Energy, Natural Resources
and Geopolitics and Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Analysis of
Global Security]

As America increases its global ties and interacts with foreign ways
and cultures, it imports the good, the bad and the ugly.

A Turkish Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen, who resides in
Pennsylvania, appears to have brought an unhealthy mix of politics and
religion to his country of asylum.

Gulen has built a global religious movement, which has attracted some
5 to 8 million followers worldwide (the exact number is unknown). In
the process, some of his followers have apparently amassed tremendous
wealth--the Gulen-affiliated net business worth exceeds $25 billion.

We have public schools for a reason. The government should not spend tax dollars on charter schools, especially those affiliated with any religion.

[waltky]

Suspected links to Gulen cost police their jobs...

Turkey says suspends 12,801 police over alleged links with cleric Gulen
Tue Oct 4, 2016 | Turkish authorities have suspended 12,801 police officers from duty, police headquarters said on Tuesday, over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his network, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.

The move came after the Interior Ministry launched an investigation into the police force, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, and a day after the Turkish government extended a state of emergency for another three months. Of the total number of police suspended across the country, 2,523 were police chiefs, the statement said. Turkey's total police force numbers about 250,000.

About 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police and judiciary have already been sacked or suspended in a post-coup crackdown, and some 32,000 people have been arrested for their alleged role in the abortive putsch. President Tayyip Erdogan said last week Turkey would benefit from an extension to the three-month state of emergency declared after the failed July 15 coup, saying more time was needed to hunt down those responsible. He suggested it may last for more than a year.

However, the crackdown has raised concerns from rights groups and Western allies who fear Erdogan is using the failed coup as a pretext to curtail all dissent and to intensify his actions against suspected Kurdish militant sympathizers. Turkey wants the United States to extradite Gulen and prosecute him on charges that he masterminded the attempt to overthrow the government. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies any involvement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tu...-idUSKCN12408Z

[Peter1469]

More and more I don't think that there was an attempted coup.