ESAT News (May 12, 2017)
A Turkish state-supported NGO is gearing up to take over schools in Ethiopia linked to the Fethullah Gulen Movement blamed for last year’s coup in Turkey, Anadolu news agency quoted NGO officials as saying.
“We have started the establishment of the Maarif Foundation in Ethiopia following the Ethiopia’s decision to shut down schools” in six different campuses and allow their takeover, said Adem Koc, Maarif’s central coordinator.
All the schools in question have been run by the Fethullah Organization (FETO), the group blamed by Ankara of being behind last July’s coup attempt, which killed 249 people and injured some 2,200.
The group is also known for its network of hundreds of schools around the world.
The Nejashi Ethio-Turkish International Schools, opened nine years ago, have six branches with kindergartens, primary schools and high schools.
The Maarif Foundation (TMF) was established after the coup attempt to take over the administration of overseas FETO-linked schools with a minimum of disruption and to protect the students’ best interests, according to the report.