About the Gulen movements finances |
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January 25, 2019
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Because of the movement's loose-knit "nonstructure," precise statistics of its work and
financial outlay do not exist; but estimates are
consistently substantial. A 2009 study by
University of Houston sociology Professor
Helen Rose Ebaugh indicates that, at the time,
some 20,000 Hizmet-supporting businesses
and other enterprises yielded as much as $1
billion annually, with some wealthy
individuals contributing millions of dollars each.19 |
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How the Gulenist Business Cycle works told by a mail from Stratfor
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In the video In their own words: The Gulen Terror-Cult Nurettin Veren says the following about money: He (Gulen) was very much against the funds being tracked and under control. In his own words, he (Gulen) said: "I had always thought politicians were smart.... capable, and a threat but these people (politicians) are very gullible". "I was afraid they would harm us, but we can easily use them (politicians) ...it's good we met with them" he said and his words are on record as saying so. |
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.....The Ebaugh-Koc paper also purports to explore the
sources of funding for the Gulen movement's projects, but in
fact it merely presents a series of uninterrupted anecdotes.
The authors explain the need for examining the issue of
finances: |
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In 2008, US Government court filings estimated the global value of Gülen’s empire at anywhere between $25 and $50 billion. No one could prove how large as there were no independent audits. In a US Court testimony during the hearing on Gülen’s petition for a special US Green Card permanent residence status, one loyal Cemaat journalist described the nominal extent of Gülen’s empire:
The projects sponsored by Gülen-inspired followers today number in the thousands, span international borders and…include over 2000 schools and seven universities in more than ninety countries in five continents, two modern hospitals, the Zaman newspaper (now in both a Turkish and English edition), a television channel (Samanyolu), a radio channel (Burc FM), CHA (a major Turkish news agency), Aksiyon (a leading weekly news magazine), national and international Gülen conferences, Ramadan interfaith dinners, interfaith dialog trips to Turkey from countries around the globe and the many programs sponsored by the Journalists and Writers Foundation. In addition, the Isik insurance company and Bank Asya, an Islamic bank, are affiliated with the Gülen community. Bank Asya was listed among the Top 500 Banks in the world by London’s Banker magazine. It had joint-venture banking across Muslim Africa, from Senegal to Mali in a strategic cooperation agreement with the Islamic Development Bank’s Senegal-based Tamweel Africa Holding SA. Zaman, which also owns the English-language Today’s Zaman, is the largest daily paper in Turkey. |
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