‘Turkish Schools’: Building an Empire With Public Funds?

Are you financing your enemy through Uncle Sam? Looks like it…

For a decade or more a world-wide Muslim sect known as Fethullah Gulen has been building a small empire in the United States by constructing and operating publicly-financed Charter Schools, or ‘Turkish schools’ as they have come to be known. There are now some 120 ‘Turkish schools’ in the U.S.

The construction work is overwhelmingly given to Turkish-owned companies set up for that purpose regardless of open bidding, and thousands of Turkish nationals have been hired to work as teachers and at other jobs, often through the use of “H-1B” visas. Catering companies and a plethora of other suppliers are also overwhelmingly Turkish-staffed and owned.

While we are told that the Fethullah Gulen sect is ‘moderate’, the fact is that a small number of Turkish professionals and businessmen have gone to the trouble of creating a multi-million dollar web of schools, construction industries and supply companies in just a few years.  Why?

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2011-06-09