Turkey’s Islamist government is set to finish a couple of development projects in New York City that, among different utilizations, will house Turkish-American understudies and open Muslim youth to Turkish publicity and fanaticism. (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
Be that as it may, Turkey’s influence of Muslim young people isn’t the main justification for why New Yorkers ought to go against the Islamist government’s land plans. A famous Turkish establishment blamed for various instances of kid misuse and assault will support and manage one of these dorms.
The U.S.- based Turken Foundation, an association set up mutually by two other strict establishments, Ensar and Turgev, is building a huge 21-story dorm to “cover” Turkish-American young people from the adversaries of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision Justice and Development Party (AKP). The structure, called the Turken House, is being raised on a $15.5-million plot at the intersection of second Avenue and 41st Street.
“Our establishment … works with all its ability to keep FETO components from disturbing the offspring of this country both in the nation and abroad,” said Ensar Foundation General Manager Huseyin Kader. (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
FETÖ is the abbreviation for the Fethullah Terrorist Organization, the AKP’s threatening name for the Gulen Movement, an overall organization of organizations, schools, and not-for-profits. Erdogan has asserted that Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim evangelist in self-exile in the United States, was the brains behind a bombed putsch against his administration in July of 2016. Subsequently, he has perceived the Gülen Movement as a fear monger association. In any case, Western knowledge organizations have not been persuaded by Turkey’s cases.
Kader’s statement that the Ensar Foundation plans to protect young people is unexpected, considering the infringement individuals from the establishment have submitted against ladies and kids. The latest abomination happened in June, when two Ensar strict teachers were kept for purportedly coercing and assaulting nine ladies living at Ensar’s protected houses – asylums laid out for ladies compromised by aggressive behavior at home. (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
The establishment’s record of kid misuse returns for over 10 years. In 2008, Ensar’s common administrator in the Turkish city of Çorum, Zekai Isler, was captured for assaulting a 13-year-old young lady and for mishandling her sister. A crook court viewed him to be unquestionably blameworthy.
In 2016, Mehmet Nuri Gezmis, a previous Ensar commonplace chief, was captured for physically manhandling two young men, matured 13 and 14.
Somewhere in the range of 2012 and 2015, Turkish regulation authorization deliberately would not examine Ensar regardless of various charges of misuse. However, by 2016, pedophilia among Ensar’s Islamist educators showed up too ordinary to even think about stowing away. 45 youngsters, ages 9 and 10, who remained at Ensar residences in the focal Anatolian city of Karaman grumbled to investigators that neighborhood Ensar chief Muharrem Buyukturk assaulted and physically mishandled them.
The 54-year-old Buyukturk admitted to the violations in his articulation at the police headquarters, however in court, he guaranteed that officials had deceived him by asserting they were attempting to help him. “On the off chance that you admit and say you are insane you will walk liberated from the town hall, cops told me,” Buyukturk said during a conference.
Clinical reports affirmed that ten youngsters were assaulted. A lawbreaker court condemned Buyukturk to 508 years in jail yet would not explore Ensar further. During the whole preliminary, the court prohibited media providing details regarding the case.
Soon after the decision, the previous resistance of the Nationalist Movement Party submitted to Parliament a movement to investigate the assault body of evidence against Ensar after the court wouldn’t explore the establishment further. That solicitation was opposed by the AKP seats.
As Ensar experienced harsh criticism from common and liberal Turks, Erdogan’s administration moved in rapidly to safeguard the Islamist establishment. After the preliminary, Nihat Ozturk, an individual from Parliament from Erdogan’s AKP, said, “Regardless you [opponents] do, we will continuously uphold Ensar.”
At the focal point of the seculars’ anger was a female bureau part. Serve for Family Sema Ramazanoglu said, “on the grounds that this happened once it isn’t all in all correct to stigmatize an establishment.” (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
The contention confronting Ensar even incited savagery among the Turkish diaspora in America. In 2017, the AKP’s North American branch coordinated a Women’s Day occasion in Paterson, New Jersey, including Minister Ramazanoglu. AKP allies ruthlessly attacked two Turkish ladies and a man who fought Ramazanoglu for her assertion on the Ensar sequential assault case.
Also, the assault examination uncovered another criminal offense. Ensar’s residences in Turkey, worked for elementary younger students, were illicit. Under Turkish regulation, establishments, associations, and foundations are not approved to work quarters for elementary school understudies. In the mean time, Erdogan’s administration moved something like seven exclusive understudy residences to Ensar’s organization after the upset endeavor in 2016. Those dorms had recently been worked by associations accepted to be connected with Gulenists.
Higher-ups at the Ensar Foundation appreciate restricted admittance to the Erdogan family. As of not long ago, Ismail Cenk Dilberoglu was executive of the establishment, serving in this limit with regards to the beyond nine years. He and Erdogan’s child, Bilal, were alumni of Kartal Anadolu Imam School, where they previously became companions. In a 2016 discourse, the more youthful Erdogan said Dilberoglu was “the individual with whom he parted ways from his better half.” (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
The Turken Foundation, which ran understudy quarters in Boston, Virginia, Chicago, Queens, and D.C. somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2017, gathered more than $54 million in gifts, while it acquired almost $23 million over the accompanying two years, as per IRS reports. The huge greater part of Turken’s 2018-2019 gifts came from a solitary unidentified source.
The Turken Foundation’s other accomplice in the dorm project, Turgev, is one of the AKP’s essential instruments in executing Erdogan’s top political objective of “raising sincere ages.” Its administrator is Fatmanur Altun, spouse of Fahrettin Altun, Erdogan’s correspondences chief. This snare of connections delineates how Turkish establishments working on U.S. soil are associated with Turkey’s top initiative, which needs to construct an extension between Turkish Islamism and Muslim Americans.
The Turken House isn’t the Islamist government’s just development project on U.S. soil. In a high-profile service on September 20, Erdogan introduced Turkevi (Turkish House), one more critical design in New York, at an expense of $291 million and a stature of 560 feet.
As indicated by Turkish government authorities, the 36-story high rise is lodging the Turkish Consulate General however will for the most part serve Turkish understudies living in the New York region. Turkevi was developed by an organization between Turkish organization IC Ictas Insaat and U.S. organization AECOM Tishman. (Turkey’s Islamist Government)
Talking at the initiation function, Siraj Wahhaj, the imam of the Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New York, tended to Erdogan: “You are the head of the world’s Muslims. … I love you.” This opinion is progressively shared by Muslim Americans.
Wahhaj has offered expressions on the side of Islamic regulations over liberal majority rule government, contending that “Islam is superior to a vote based system.” He likewise upholds flogging, like stoning for infidelity and cutting off hands for burglary.
Since the ascent of the AKP, Turkey has sent out its Islamist image all over the planet, remembering for the West. In New York, the system is embracing the worthwhile field of land – not just for the business and strategic advantages that property proprietorship involves, yet additionally to prep Turkish understudies to do its political offering.
With the upset Ensar Foundation in charge of something like one of these drives, Turkey is set to send out its ill-disposed homegrown legislative issues to Midtown Manhattan, and New Yorkers of all stripes will undoubtedly follow through on the cost.
