Washington- A network of more than 150 U.S. charter schools linked to followers of Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based cleric the Turkish government blames for instigating July?s failed coup, has come under growing financial and legal strain, according to school officials, current and former members of Gulen?s movement, and public records reviewed by Reuters. The publicly financed schools, a key source of jobs and business opportunities for U.S. members of Gulen?s global movement, have sharply slowed their expansion in recent years, public records show.
Lindsay Lohan reportedly sobs as she greets paralyzed Syrian refugee in Istanbul. American actress Lindsay Lohan reportedly burst in tears when visiting Syrian refugees at a hospital in Istanbul on Monday. Accompanied by Turkey's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Abdurrahim Boynukalin, Lohan greeted a Syrian man from Aleppo with both of his legs paralyzed.
NEW YORK CITY - The Washington, DC based Global Policy Institute, (GPI), a non-partisan think-tank, on September 23 held an event at the Harvard Club in New York City aimed at analyzing the July 15 failed military coup in Turkey. In front of a very large audience, Turkish senior policy-makers, along with Turkish and U.S. senior experts, discussed various aspects of the failed coup and the key role played in it by supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. now accused by Turkish authorities of being the master mind of the military action aimed at toppling the elected government.
20 September 2016 Drawing particular attention to the nearly six year crisis in Syria where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced, the President of Turkey called for urgent action to stop the conflict and persecution in the country. "When will the United Nations and the Security Council stop tolerating the [Syrian] regime's policy of 'either surrender or die,' which condemn the civilians to hunger" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked world leaders in his address at the UN General Assembly. "Syrian people are being exhausted in the grip of proxy wars which have been shaped by a cruel administration, merciless terrorist organizations, global and regional competition," he added.
