Gülen earns $500 million annually from US activities: Turkish intel report

A report from Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) recently suggested that the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) earned half-a-billion U.S. dollars from its 312 education institutions across the U.S., describing the country as the main center of activities of the group.

"The organization [FETÖ] gets $500 million in income from the U.S. through 155 charter schools in 27 states, with 60,000 students and 5,000 employees," the MİT said in a report sent to a parliamentary panel examining the July 2016 coup attempt staged by FETÖ, the term used to describe the movement of Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.  

FETÖ has a total of 312 schools in the United States, including four universities and 155 charter schools, which constitute a significant financial resource, read the MİT's report. In 2016, FETÖ applied to open 12 new charter schools, the report said, adding that the biggest charter schools networks are in Texas, Ohio, California and Florida. 

The four FETÖ-linked universities are the North American University in Texas, the American Islamic College in Illinois, the Virginia International University in Virginia, and the Respect Graduate School in Pennsylvania. There is also the Gülen Institute in Houston. Gülen himself has lived in Pennsylvania since 1999 and controls his worldwide organization from the U.S. 

Turkey has been pressing the U.S. government for the extradition of Gülen on the grounds that he was the mastermind of the July 2016 coup attempt, but Ankara has not received a positive response so far. 

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