Chesapeake Science Point:
Evidence of Affiliation with the Gulen Movement
Page created Sep 19, 2010; Last updated Apr 6, 2012
by C.A.S.I.L.I.P.S. - Citizens Against Special Interest Lobbying in Public Schools
Chesapeake Science Point is a charter school in Hanover, Maryland. Its charter holder corporation is the Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation.
A Chesapeake Science Point student received a silver medal at the INESPO science fair in the Netherlands in 2010. A national Dutch newspaper ran an article (English translation here) in June 2011 about INESPO's affiliation with the Gulen Movement; the article notes that three-quarters of the participants in INESPO-2011 came from Gulen schools around the world.
The connection of Chesapeake Science Point to the Gulen Movement is further shown by the multiple affiliations, both past and present, of the following individuals:
Ferhat Avsar
Ahmet Halit Aydilek
Ali Bicak
Kazim Cicek
Ilker Gurbuz, a.k.a. Mehmet Gurbuz, M. Ilker Gurbuz, Mehmet Ilker Gurbuz
Fatih Kandil
Bunyamin "Ben" Karaduman
Ozcan “Jon” Omural
Lutfi On
by C.A.S.I.L.I.P.S. - Citizens Against Special Interest Lobbying in Public Schools
Chesapeake Science Point is a charter school in Hanover, Maryland. Its charter holder corporation is the Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation.
A Chesapeake Science Point student received a silver medal at the INESPO science fair in the Netherlands in 2010. A national Dutch newspaper ran an article (English translation here) in June 2011 about INESPO's affiliation with the Gulen Movement; the article notes that three-quarters of the participants in INESPO-2011 came from Gulen schools around the world.
The connection of Chesapeake Science Point to the Gulen Movement is further shown by the multiple affiliations, both past and present, of the following individuals:
Ferhat Avsar
- Math teacher, Chesapeake Science Point
- Math teacher, Harmony Science Academy, El Paso (Gulen charter school)
- Teacher, Harmony Science Academy Houston (Gulen charter school)
Ahmet Halit Aydilek
- Chesapeake Science Point board member
- Founder, Wisconsin Career Academy (Gulen charter school) with Yuksel Alp Aslandogan
- International Antalya University (Gulen institution in Turkey)
Ali Bicak
- Director, Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation (Gulenist)
- Author, Fountain Magazine (Fountain is a major English-language publication of the Gulen Movement; Fethullah Gulen writes the lead article for each issue.)
Kazim Cicek
- Science teacher, Chesapeake Science Point
- Teacher, Dove Science Academy, Oklahoma (Gulen charter school)
Ilker Gurbuz, a.k.a. Mehmet Gurbuz, M. Ilker Gurbuz, Mehmet Ilker Gurbuz
- Math teacher, Chesapeake Science Point
- Principal, Baltimore IT Academy (Gulen charter school)
Fatih Kandil
- Principal, Chesapeake Science Point
- Director, Horizon Science Academy, Dayton, Ohio (Gulen charter school)
- Wisconsin Career Academy (Gulen charter school)
- Applicant, First State Math and Science Academy, Delaware, 2010 (proposed Gulen charter school that never materialized)
Bunyamin "Ben" Karaduman
- President/CEO of Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation (as of fall 2011)
- Executive Director, Coral Academy of Science, 2006-07 (Gulen charter school in Nevada)
- Washington Education Foundation (Gulenist organization overseeing the Gulen charter schools in the mid-Atlantic states; see US Gulen Movement organizational chart on this page)
Ozcan “Jon” Omural
- Director,Chesapeake Science Point
- Vice President for Business Development and HR, Ebru TV (Ebru TV is a major Gulen media outlet)
Lutfi On
- Board member, Chesapeake Science Point
- Profiled in Ebru TV video as successful immigrant hairdresser (Ebru TV is a major Gulen media outlet)
- Loaned $932,666 to Maryland Turkish American Inhabitants, a.k.a. MARTI (Gulenist organization)
