Turkey, Labor, The Islamic Gülen Movement & The US: An interview with Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Turkey, Labor, The Islam Gulen Movement & The US: An interview with Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Ertuğrul Kürkçü who is a member of the parliament of Turkey representing Mersen and the
Peace and Democracy Party discusses the political situation in Turkey including the the
role of the AKP, the working class, the Kurdish people and the political role of the Gülen
Islamic movement including their support for education changes that are destroying secular
education in Turkey and the United States. Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Islamic cult leader
who is based in the United States and lives in the Philadelphia area. Kürkçü also connects
the jailing of Turkish journalists who expose his connections with the police in Turkey.
Over 94 are in prison in Turkey for writing about the political and economic conditions.
Ahmet Şık was one of the journalists jailed for writing about the Gülen movement connection
to the police in Turkey.
Kürkçü also talks about the role of the United States and the Turkish government in the MIddle
East. This interview took place on May 8, 2012 in Ankara, Turkey.
For more information on the role of the Gülen schools in the US go to:
http://btownerrant.com/2012/04/25/islam-and-the-free-market-of-privatized-education-friending-the-gulen-charter-schools/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/largest-charter-network-in-us-schools-tied-to-turkey/2012/03/23/gIQAoaFzcS_blog.html%20
http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2012/04/the-gulen-movement’s-connection-to-the-largest-us-charter-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/middleeast/turkey-feels-sway-of-fethullah-gulen-a-reclusive-cleric.html?_r=1&ref=world
Information on journalists jailing
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/turkeys-jailed-journalists.html
http://turkeypressfreedom.wordpress.com/
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/turkey191211.html
http://www.gazetecileronline.com/newsdetails/4770-/GazetecilerOnline/iste-tutuklu-gazetecilerin-isim-isim-listesi
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn.ricochet.com/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/media/images/ahmet-sik-in-cizdigi-buyuk-resim_420x315/1464246-1-eng-US/ahmet-sik-in-cizdigi-buyuk-resim_420x315_lightbox.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Ahmet-Sik-s-Defense&usg=__-xPZ59Hd0vKhpOMHdYlImwE-YE4=&h=315&w=420&sz=36&hl=en&start=7&sig2=iWvkwo4xHc7p5woUbXU1yw&zoom=1&tbnid=lJT53K4SxiAEeM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=125&ei=vVCuT-G0IaHjiAKKntHvAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dahmet%2Bsik%2Bjailed%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS310%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

For labor go to:
http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/137971-there-should-be-a-parliamentary-inquiry-about-the-death-of-workers
Production Of Labor Video Project http://www.laborvideo.org