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Turkey, Labor, The Islamic Gülen Movement & The US: An interview with Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Ertuğrul Kürkçü, a member of the Turkish parliament representing the city of Mersen and the Peace and Demcoracy party discussed the political situation in Turkey including the AKP government and the national and international role of the Gulen Movement. This movement is now the largest operator of charter schools in the United States and supported by many US politicians.
Turkey has been a loyal ally of the United States government including Democrats and Republicans and has implemented the US policies of deregulation and privatization pushed through by the IMF, World Bank and WTO. He discusses how these policies have affected the people of Turkey as well.
Turkey has been a loyal ally of the United States government including Democrats and Republicans and has implemented the US policies of deregulation and privatization pushed through by the IMF, World Bank and WTO. He discusses how these policies have affected the people of Turkey as well.
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
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
For more information:
http://youtu.be/7sk1SxgY9NE
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There is way too many groups that are angry with the lies and lack of transparency this group is known for.
Teachers, Parents, Jewish people, Kurds, Americans, etc., the list is too long.
They are now getting their schools denied: Fulton Science Academy, Truebright Charter Academy, Lotus School of Excellence, Knoxville Charter Academy, Mokapu STEM School and many more (93 to date)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=31ErYhIR6Xs
Sign the Petition here to stop charter schools from bringing in unqualified, uncredentialed teachers on h1-b Visa (namely the Gulen Charter Schools)
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-discriminatory-practices-at-us-publicly-funded-charter-schools
Teachers, Parents, Jewish people, Kurds, Americans, etc., the list is too long.
They are now getting their schools denied: Fulton Science Academy, Truebright Charter Academy, Lotus School of Excellence, Knoxville Charter Academy, Mokapu STEM School and many more (93 to date)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=31ErYhIR6Xs
Sign the Petition here to stop charter schools from bringing in unqualified, uncredentialed teachers on h1-b Visa (namely the Gulen Charter Schools)
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-discriminatory-practices-at-us-publicly-funded-charter-schools
On the surface, Ertuğrul Kürkçü seems to be an adversary of the Islamist forces at work in Turkey with his article of Operation Gladio, but his view on integrating the Koran into the school system is what the right-wing Islamists want. This is the same type of tactic the Gulan movement is accused of. Getting into government under the guise of mainstream or even progressive politics. And once you're in, you fight to impose an Islamist totalitarian state.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html
By: Jody Sabral posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream to raise a more “pious generation” is one step closer to reality with new education reforms that include optional Koran courses for children as young as 11 years old. -------
"The reforms are not only about integrating the Koran into the national education system,” says Ertugrul Kurkcu, an opposition MP from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy party. “It will integrate the ministry of religious affairs, or Diyanet, into the national education system because the system now comes from a secular tradition and does not have the resources to deliver such an education.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html
By: Jody Sabral posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream to raise a more “pious generation” is one step closer to reality with new education reforms that include optional Koran courses for children as young as 11 years old. -------
"The reforms are not only about integrating the Koran into the national education system,” says Ertugrul Kurkcu, an opposition MP from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy party. “It will integrate the ministry of religious affairs, or Diyanet, into the national education system because the system now comes from a secular tradition and does not have the resources to deliver such an education.”
For more information:
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/...
Kürkçü openly says from a critical standpoint that, since the government will not be able to find the necessary amount of teachers for koranic courses from within the bulk of secular teachers in the national education siystem will inevitably integrate the Diyanet in the national education. He in the video too expresses his opposition to the Koranic courses very openly, and voted against the legislation during the parliamentary debate. Who is this person anonymously lying?
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html#ixzz4NBv5i9yS
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/turkish-education-reform-passed.html#ixzz4NBv5i9yS
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