Organic Ties, Part 3
Page created Mar 18, 2012; last updated Oct 3, 2012
Sait Yavuz and brothers
Muhammet Sait Yavuz (a.k.a. Sait Yavuz, M. Sait Yavuz, Muhammet Yavuz, Said Yavuz, Savit Yavuz) has affiliations with both the Gulen Institute and the Cosmos Foundation in Texas. He is also an editor for the Blue Dome Press, a Gulenist publishing outlet. He was a speaker at a Gulen conference at the Nigerian Turkish Nile University, a Gulen university in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2011. He is also on the editorial board of an upcoming Gulen conference to be held in Taiwan in December 2012. The following two images are screenshots taken from the Fall 2009 issue of "The Tower," (Vol. 4 No. 1) a newsletter of the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma (pdf link; highlighting was added). Note the admission that Harmony Public Schools are Gulen schools.
Muhammet Sait Yavuz (a.k.a. Sait Yavuz, M. Sait Yavuz, Muhammet Yavuz, Said Yavuz, Savit Yavuz) has affiliations with both the Gulen Institute and the Cosmos Foundation in Texas. He is also an editor for the Blue Dome Press, a Gulenist publishing outlet. He was a speaker at a Gulen conference at the Nigerian Turkish Nile University, a Gulen university in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2011. He is also on the editorial board of an upcoming Gulen conference to be held in Taiwan in December 2012. The following two images are screenshots taken from the Fall 2009 issue of "The Tower," (Vol. 4 No. 1) a newsletter of the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma (pdf link; highlighting was added). Note the admission that Harmony Public Schools are Gulen schools.
(Aside: the statement above, that Gulen schools are non-religious, is inaccurate; see here, here and here.)
In a campaign filing for Alma Allen (a Texas state representative), Mr. Yavuz, now using the name Muhammet Yavuz, is shown to have reported his employer as the Cosmos Foundation, which runs the Harmony Public Schools charter school chain (pdf link).
In a campaign filing for Alma Allen (a Texas state representative), Mr. Yavuz, now using the name Muhammet Yavuz, is shown to have reported his employer as the Cosmos Foundation, which runs the Harmony Public Schools charter school chain (pdf link).
Muhammet Sait Yavuz has two brothers, Mustafa Selman Yavuz and Cafer Yavuz (a.k.a. Cafer Tayyar Yavuz, Jeff Yavuz), who also have connections to the Gulen Movement:
SETA think tank (Washington DC and Turkey)
The following diagram of connections centered around the Washington-based SETA think tank (with a branch in Turkey as well) illustrates ties between Gulen charter schools and the Gulen Movement, as well as additional ties to Turkey's AKP government. The Gulen Movement is also vying for influence in the Brookings Institution, one of Washington's most influential think tanks.
That SETA is affiliated with the Gulen Movement is mentioned in an Aug 13, 2010 report of the Congressional Research Service by Carol Migdalovitz. Hurriyet and Prospect Magazine (and Stratfor, in leaked emails) have noted SETA's connections to Turkey's ruling AKP Party, which has been closely allied with the Gulen Movement for years, although recently some tensions have visible between these two groups.
SETA's website is produced by Zeitin Design, a company involved with several other Gulenist websites, including that of Chesapeake Math & IT Academy.
That SETA is affiliated with the Gulen Movement is mentioned in an Aug 13, 2010 report of the Congressional Research Service by Carol Migdalovitz. Hurriyet and Prospect Magazine (and Stratfor, in leaked emails) have noted SETA's connections to Turkey's ruling AKP Party, which has been closely allied with the Gulen Movement for years, although recently some tensions have visible between these two groups.
SETA's website is produced by Zeitin Design, a company involved with several other Gulenist websites, including that of Chesapeake Math & IT Academy.
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Turkmen connections between Gulen charter schools
and the Gulen Movement
Individuals such as Perman Gochyyev (a.k.a. Perman Gocyev, Perman Gocyyew), Batyr Odeyev, Amanmyrat "Aman" Gurdov and Muhammet Mamedov have/had connections with both Gulenist organizations and Gulen charter schools.
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Naim Kapucu
Mr. Kapucu is a board member of Discovery Education Services, Inc., which runs the Orlando Science Schools (Gulen charter schools) in Orlando, Florida. Sirin Coskun is/was also on the board of Discovery Education Services, and is now a petitioner, under the auspices of Galaxy Education, Inc., for a proposed Gulen charter school initially known as Pinellas School of Math and Science, but now renamed Discovery Academy of Science.
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More connections
This list of individuals' multiple affiliations (both past and present) shows the connections of Gulen charter schools with the Gulen Movement and Gulenist organizations.
Tarik Celik
- Executive Director, Texas Turkish American Chamber of Commerce (Gulenist)
- Chairman of Advisory Board, Turkish American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast US (Gulenist)
- Executive Director, Istanbul Center (Gulenist organization in Atlanta)
- Executive Director, Wisconsin Career Academy (Gulen charter school)
- Dean, Virginia International University (Gulenist institution)
- Graduate, Virginia International University (Gulenist institution)
Bulent Dogan
- Assistant Professor, North American College (Gulenist)
- Project director, DISTCO (Gulenist competition)
- Principal, Harmony School of Art and Technology (Gulen charter school)
- Harmony Public Schools (Gulen charter school)
- Superintendent, School of Science and Technology San Antonio
M Murat Kaval
- Peace Islands Institute (formerly Interfaith Dialog Center) NJ (Gulenist)
- Apple Education Services (Gulenist organization providing many services to Gulen charter schools in the northeast)
Hasan Kose
- Director, Minnesota School of Science (Gulen charter school)
- Director, Noble Academy Cleveland OH (Gulen charter school)
- Director, Horizon Science Academy Dayton OH (Gulen charter school)
- Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School NY (Gulen charter school)
- Fatih University, Turkey (Gulenist)
- Surat Publishing, Turkey (Gulenist)
- Zhambyl Kazakh-Turkish College of Economics (also spelled Jambyl), Kazakhstan (private Gulen school)
Gokhan Ozgur
- Fatih University (Gulenist) Masters Degree 2001
- Board Member, Discovery Education Services, charter holder of Orlando Science Middle/High School (Gulen charter school)
- Faculty, Meliksah University (Gulenist), Turkey
Mustafa Yavuz (different individual from Mustafa Selman Yavuz mentioned above)
- Nil Academy, Canada (private Gulen school)
- Ecole Sogut, Canada (private Gulen school)
- Harmony Science Academy, Houston, Austin (Gulen charter school)
- Dove Science Academy, Tulsa, Oklahoma City (Gulen charter school)
- Sule College, Australia (private Gulen school)
