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AZERBAIJAN SHUTS DOWN 'GULEN-LINKED' SCHOOLS
11:20 * 19.06.14
Azerbaijan's government-run energy company has announced that private
schools formerly run by a movement led by U.S.-based Islamic scholar
Fethullah Gulen have been closed down, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
>From February to April, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan
Republic (SOCAR) took over dozens of private high schools, university
exam preparation centers and universities run by a Turkish education
company called Cağ Ogretim which is allegedly linked with the Gulen
movement.
SOCAR announced June 18 that it decided to close these schools, which
had been operated by the company now known as Azerbaijan International
Education Center, due to high maintenance costs and difficulties in
project management.
Turkish government accuses Gulen-led 'Hizmet' (Service) movement of
forming a shadow structure within the Turkish state and of plotting
to topple the government.
In March, Azeri media reported that Azerbaijan sacked Elnur Aslanov,
head of President İlham Aliyev's Political Analysis and Information
Department, accusing him of having links with the movement.
Newspapers had said Gulen's network had also infiltrated state
institutions in Azerbaijan and found cohorts among some politicians.
Armenian News - Tert.am
11:20 * 19.06.14
Azerbaijan's government-run energy company has announced that private
schools formerly run by a movement led by U.S.-based Islamic scholar
Fethullah Gulen have been closed down, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
>From February to April, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan
Republic (SOCAR) took over dozens of private high schools, university
exam preparation centers and universities run by a Turkish education
company called Cağ Ogretim which is allegedly linked with the Gulen
movement.
SOCAR announced June 18 that it decided to close these schools, which
had been operated by the company now known as Azerbaijan International
Education Center, due to high maintenance costs and difficulties in
project management.
Turkish government accuses Gulen-led 'Hizmet' (Service) movement of
forming a shadow structure within the Turkish state and of plotting
to topple the government.
In March, Azeri media reported that Azerbaijan sacked Elnur Aslanov,
head of President İlham Aliyev's Political Analysis and Information
Department, accusing him of having links with the movement.
Newspapers had said Gulen's network had also infiltrated state
institutions in Azerbaijan and found cohorts among some politicians.
Armenian News - Tert.am