600 charter schools x 200 graduates/year = 120,000 Turkish sympathizers produced every year
Tim Stellar, a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star, has written extensively about the Sonoran Science Academy school network and its ties to the Gulen movement. In May 2010, he posted a story about a column by a well-known Turkish journalist and political figure, Nazli Ilicak, which appeared on September 2, 2009 in a popular Turkish daily newspaper.
In her piece, Ilicak related a conversation she had had with two prominent Turkish men about the Gulen movement’s U.S. charter schools. One of the men was Ayhan Bermek, a wealthy businessman, who is also mentioned on CASILIP’s page “Financial links between the Gulen Movement and Gulen charter schools,ctd.” The other was Enver Altayli. A person with that same name is a former Turkish intelligence officer who was also