Re: [CT] [MESA] [Eurasia] RUSSIA/TURKEY/TURKMENISTAN/US - Turkmenistan closes down Turkish schools - website

Re: [CT] [MESA] [Eurasia] RUSSIA/TURKEY/TURKMENISTAN/US -
Turkmenistan closes down Turkish schools - website


Seems like a two-prong strategy. The Turkish government uses Turkic ethnic links as a tool to try and create space in CA (I bet they are doing this elsewhere in Russia's Muslim regions). And Gulen uses the religious card - most likely stressing on the common Sufi understanding of Islam. If you ask me the Russians can team up with Gulen against the S-Js, which is the
biggest threat to the Kremlin.

On 8/19/11 11:07 AM, Lauren Goodrich wrote:

Yes, all the Stans but Kyrg hates the Gulen movement and shuts the schools down whenever they can find them.

On 8/19/11 8:31 AM, Emre Dogru wrote:

right - Stans do this quite often, though.

John Blasing wrote:

these are the schools funded by the gulen movement i believe. . .

Eugene Chausovsky wrote:

Interesting blowback to Turkish influence in C. Asia

On 8/19/11 4:59 AM, nobody@stratfor.com wrote:

Turkmenistan closes down Turkish schools - website 

Excerpt from report by Turkmen opposition website chrono-tm.org on 14  August 

The Turkmen-Turkish schools, which has been operating in Turkmenistan  since the early 1990s', were closed down from 1 August. 

Only one such school named after Ataturk has left in Asgabat. 

The school has stopped enrolment already, though according to the  teachers, the current students will be given a chance to finish their  study. 

The schools in Turkmen regions have been closed completely. 

The authorities are seriously worried by the influence of Turkish  religious-political organization Nurcular, which is the main sponsor of  Turkish schools on the territory of CIS countries. 

[Passage omitted: Besides good quality education, the Turkmen-Turkish  schools actively teach Pan-Turkism ideology; Nurcular organization  promotes this ideology in CIS countries. The Turkish government sponsors  the further education in Turkey of the most active adherents from  Turkmenistan.] 

Some young people, studying in Turkey, do not accept "the game rules"  and literally escape from their patrons, mainly to the USA. 

We have succeeded to speak with one such young man, on the condition of  anonymity. 

"Eventually, the most loyal and psychologically influenced graduates are  promoted by Nurcular, also with bribes, to the key positions in  ministries and state departments in Turkmenistan, such as the migration  department, drug control department, the Ministry of Defense, the  National Security Ministry, the Internal Affairs Ministry [ellipses as  published]", he said. 

According to him, there are graduates of Ankara [Turkish] Military  Academy among Turkmen security officers. 

"The policy of assimilation of their people into Turkmen security  agencies has yielded fruits already - amidst the deficit of qualified  local personnel, the majority of employees of Migration department and  Drug Control department are graduates of various Turkish institutions",  he noted. 

[Passage omitted: Turkmen-Turkish university might be closed next year] 

Source: chrono-tm.org website, Vienna, in Russian 14 Aug 11 

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