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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Major development re the charter schools associated with the Gulen movement

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Major development re the charter schools associated with the Gulen movement

Major development re the charter schools associated with the Gulen movement


The Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer article by Martha Woodall and Claudio Gatti has been spreading like wildfire.

Fethullah Gulen is a major Islamic political figure in Turkey, but he lives in self-imposed exile in a Poconos enclave and gained his green card by convincing a federal judge in Philadelphia that he was an influential educational figure in the United States.

As evidence, his lawyer pointed to the charter schools, now more than 120 in 25 states, that his followers - Turkish scientists, engineers, and businessmen - have opened, including Truebright