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The Gülen movement schools are a network of private or semi-private schools founded by Turkish-Americans. Alp Aslandoğan, executive director of the non-profit organisation Alliance for Shared Values has said that the schools are independent yet indirectly tied to the Islamic Gülen movement on the "intellectual or inspirational level."
Akin to Turkey's Sufi tariqas are lay religious orders which have been banned in Turkey since 1925. [122] Movement schools and businesses organize locally and link themselves into informal networks. [123] Each local Gülen movement school and community has a person designated its "informal" prayer leader . In Turkey Imam is state-sponsored.
The following is a list of missionary schools founded in Turkey, during the Ottoman Empire. The schools listed are either closed or currently following a secular education model, according to the Constitution of Turkey, which outlaws religious education. [citation needed].
Zappeion — Established in 1875, it was a school for girls catering to the Greek population. Ayşe Sıdıka Hanım [ tr ] , an ethnic Turk, attended this school. Johann Strauss, author of "Language and power in the late Ottoman Empire," described it as "prestigious".
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The American Collegiate Institute, the oldest private high school in İzmir, was founded in 1878. At that time, İzmir, now a metropolitan city on the western coast of Turkey, was known as Smyrna [2] In its early years, the school was an American/Christian missionary school that only accepted girls as students. [3]
The history of Talas American College is linked to the activities of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Turkey. Founded in 1810 and receiving its charter in 1812, the ABCFM was a Protestant organization based in Boston, USA.
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen [48] was born in the village of Korucuk, near Erzurum, [49] [50] to Ramiz and Refia Gülen, [51] There is some dispute over his date of birth. According to some accounts, usually older ones, he was born on 10 November 1938, while others state his birth was on 27 April 1941.