Episode 1 - Gulen: Paradox Between ''Peace Champion'' & ''Coup Leader''

3 FETO teachers arrested and deported back to Turkey by Malaysia police a threat to national security

The three FETÖ suspects were arrested for threatening national security.

Malaysian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Zahid Hamidi announced that two Turkish citizens who were detained last week and had links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), were extradited to Turkey.

İsmet Özçelik, İhsan Aslan and Turgay Karaman were arrested by Malaysian security forces.

Malaysian Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said that the three suspects were extradited to Turkey for their links to FETÖ.

He added that their passports had been cancelled by Turkey, and therefore, Özçelik, Aslan and Karaman had the status of illegal immigrants in Malaysia.

Özçelik, the head of a FETÖ school in Malaysia, used to work as the vice chair of a university in Turkey before he was fired for links to the FETÖ terrorist organization.

The three were arrested last week for threatening national security.

FETÖ terrorists are led by U.S.-based Fetullah Gülen, who orchestrated Turkey's July 15 coup attempt and is the mastermind behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.

Since the failed coup, operations have been ongoing in the military, police and judiciary as well as in state institutions across the country to arrest suspects with alleged links to FETÖ.

The terrorist group is also known for its network comprised of hundreds of schools around the world.

https://stockholmcf.org/turkeys-official-agency-refutes-claims-of-malaysian-deputy-pm-and-police-chief-over-three-turks/

Gulen teachers worldwide arrested and deported Gulen schools turned over to Turkish Foundations Myanmar

ETO suspect deported from Myanmar arrives in Turkey Turkish police says so-called 'Myanmar imam' is senior member of Fetullah Terrorist Organization

A Turkish school official, who was deported from Myanmar over his alleged ties to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), has arrived in Istanbul, a police source said Saturday. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media, the source said Muhammet Furkan Sokmen was a senior member of FETO, which Ankara has accused of orchestrating last July’s coup attempt in Turkey which martyred 250 people and injured nearly 2,200. The source added that the so-called "Myanmar imam" -- a term the group uses to describe a senior member responsible for a specific branch of the terror network -- was a director at the Horizon International Schools, and a partner of the Mediterranean International Education Services Co. in Myanmar both linked to the FETO. Sokmen was deported from Myanmar on Wednesday after the Turkish government canceled his and his family’s passports. Upon his arrival at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Saturday, Sokmen was taken to the police headquarters for questioning, the source said, adding the suspect would later be referred to a court of justice. Turkey has asked countries to close FETO-linked schools, colleges, and businesses following the attempted coup that left 250 people dead. Earlier this month Malaysia deported three Turkish nationals wanted by Ankara over alleged ties to FETO. The group, led by U.S.-based Fetullah Gulen, has a large network of overseas educational and commercial interests.

Afghanistan Gulen Schools next to close #HeroinTrade

KABUL - Afghanistan has ordered a network of schools run by an organisation regarded with suspicion by the Turkish government to be transferred to a foundation approved by Ankara, Afghan officials said.

The move against Afghan Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), the body that runs the schools, appears to be part of Turkey's campaign against followers of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric it accuses of being behind a coup attempt in July. ATCE, which says it is an independent organization, runs schools in several cities including the capital, Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kandahar and Herat and has been in Afghanistan since 1995.

Acting Education Minister Shafiq Samim said the Turkish government had asked for the schools to be placed under the management of a so-called "Vakif", a Turkish educational and charitable foundation.

He said there would be a "gradual transition" of staff but the government would not expel any of the schools' Turkish teachers.

"Turkish teachers are our guests and there has not been any decision to expel them," he told a news conference on Saturday, adding that the schools would continue to operate. ATCE Chairman Numan Erdogan said his organization had not yet received any government notification, and would challenge any decision to take away management of the schools.

"We have nothing to do with developments in Turkey, none of our teachers is implicated and any allegations against us about that are baseless," he said.

Last year, shortly before a visit to Islamabad by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Pakistan ordered Turkish teachers at schools run by a body called PakTurk International Schools and Colleges to leave the country.

Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan who nows lives in self-imposed exile in the United States, promotes a moderate form of Islam, supporting inter-faith communication and Western-style education and inspiring schools in different parts of the world. In the wake of July's attempted coup, the Turkish president branded him a "terrorist" and pressed other countries to move against him and his supporters.

Turkey has donated around $1 billion in development aid to Afghanistan since 2004, according to the ministry of foreign affairs and is one of the country's most important economic partners, with ethnic and cultural links in the north.

It also provides more than 500 troops to the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.

http://nation.com.pk/international/07-Mar-2017/afghanistan-moves-against-turkish-schools-linked-to-erdogan-foe

Afghanistan Gulen Schools transferred to Turkish Government controls what about the Heroin trade?

Afghanistan initially opposed to Turkey’s demand to shut down the schools, but couldn’t resist Ankara pressures, according to sources.

Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani has agreed to hand over the Afghan-Turk school, run by a pro-Gulen institution, to the Turkish government.

Currently six Afghan-Turk schools are operating across Afghanistan where over 8000 students, including girls, are enrolled.

Because of the new agreement, some 150 pro-Gulen Turkish teachers will be expelled from Afghanistan after the handover which is expected to happen soon.

The schools are in Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Sheberghan cities.

Afghanistan initially opposed to Turkey’s demand to shut down the schools, but couldn’t resist Ankara pressures, according to sources.

The schools will remain open, but run by an institution directly operated by the Turkish government.

http://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/afghan-turk-schools-will-operate-under-turkish-govt#GulenAfghanistan

Morocco has closed all Gulen Schools down

Rabat- Morocco’s Ministry of National Education has officially shut down all schools associated with the Fethullah Gulen, who is the alleged architect of the July 15 failed coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

All students affected by the close down of the Gulen institutions were re-enrolled at private and public sector establishments.

In an official statement issued by the ministry, the government reiterated its concern with the future of all pupils who were distressed by the shutdown of their academies.

“Students enrolled at these schools have all since been re-enrolled at various state and private educational institutions… in accordance with their parents’ wishes,” it added, affirming that the students have resumed their studies.

In January, the Ministry of the Interior announced its plan to shut down all Gulen-affiliated institutions, setting a deadline of one month for the school’s officials to comply with its decision.

The ministry said that “investigations showed that the schools were spreading the ideology of Gulen’s movement “which contradict the educational system and religious principles of Morocco.”

Following this decision, the student’s parents protested against the ministry, condemning the decision.

Morocco would take “all necessary steps” to close down all Gulen-linked schools operating on its territory, a Moroccan diplomat said.

The Gulen network established its first school in Morocco in 1993 in the coastal city of Tangier before setting up more in other cities.

The Turkish authorities believe the group had orchestrated last year’s coup attempt against the country’s democratically elected government, which left at least 248 martyrs in its wake and some 2,200 others injured.

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/01/205352/interior-ministry-shuts-fethullah-gulen-schools-morocco/

Students in Gulen German schools ask to spy on Gulen networks in Germany

A German education union claimed on Thursday that Turkish diplomats in Germany have been urging students from the diaspora to spy on their teachers and report any critical comments they make against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

According to a report in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) on Thursday, Education and Science Labor Union’s (GEW) spokesperson Sebastian Krebs said the Turkish consulate in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) told parents and teachers at “information events” in Düsseldorf, Essen, Cologne und Münster in January that they should spy on classes at German schools against Erdoğan critics.

“We have learned from various sources that participants have been encouraged to report to the consul general any criticism of the Turkish government that is observed in schools in North Rhine-Westphalia,” he said.

The union represents nearly 280,000 education workers in Germany, most of them teachers in state schools.

Speaking to Germany’s The Local website, Nefren Tuncay, Turkey’s vice consul in Düsseldorf, denied the accusations, saying that “the claim by the GEW that pupils were encouraged to film their teachers, or that it had anything to do with politics in Turkey, is not true.”

Ali Sak, chairman of the Ruhr Turkish Parents Association, confirmed to WAZ that meetings took place between Turkish consular officials and selected teachers and Muslim clerics. However, he denied that pupils were asked to spy on teachers.

This is not the first time that Turkey has been accused of spying on the Turkish population in Germany.

Earlier in February, German police raided the homes of four Turkish Muslim preachers linked with the German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) on the suspicion that they spied for Erdoğan’s government on followers of the Gülen movement, the inspiration of which — US-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen — Turkey accuses of being behind a failed coup attempt last July.

On Wednesday, DİTİB coordinator Murat Kayman announced his resignation as the spying imam issue has led to tensions between Turkey and Germany.

The imams are accused of illegally profiling Turkish people in Germany, particularly sympathizers of the Gülen movement.

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (GBA) said in a statement that the imams had acted on an order issued on Sept. 20 of last year by the directorate to profile Gülen movement sympathizers.

Earlier, DİTİB officials admitted to profiling Gülen movement sympathizers based on instructions from Turkey’s top religious authority, the Directorate of Religious Affairs.

Last month the GBA launched an investigation into Turkish intelligence operations on German soil after a lawmaker filed a criminal complaint. Austria is also investigating whether Turkey has been operating an informer network targeting Gülen followers on its soil, via its embassy in Vienna.

Turkey has accused Germany of harboring militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and far-leftists of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), which has carried out attacks in Turkey. German officials reject the accusation.

While the Turkish prime minister addressed the Turkish diaspora in the NRW town of Oberhausen on Saturday, calling on them to support Erdoğan in an upcoming referendum in April to switch Turkey to an executive presidency under his leadership, Erdoğan is expected to hold rallies in Germany in March.

Nearly 1.4 million Turkish citizens living in Germany are eligible to vote in the referendum.

http://turkeypurge.com/turkey-asks-students-at-german-schools-to-spy-on-erdogan-critics-union