{"id":15070,"date":"2020-06-10T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15070"},"modified":"2020-06-10T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:15:45","slug":"alabama-shuts-feto-funded-charter-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15070","title":{"rendered":"Alabama shuts FETO funded charter school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US state of Alabama shut down a controversial charter school Tuesday with links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) two months before its opening, citing a failure to meet conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Public Charter School Commission voted to revoke Woodland Prep&#8217;s charter, initially approved in May 2018, for failing to meet conditions of pre-opening, a lack of adherence to generally accepted financial standards and failing to establish community support for the school, according to the local Al.com news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The first charter revoked by the commission has links to criminal cult leader Fetullah Gulen, a fugitive terrorist wanted by Turkey for his role behind a deadly military coup attempt in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Gulen has been residing in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania for over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to the news outlet, Alabama Education Association President Sherry Tucker said the \u201cAEA has consistently said we support good charter schools. Woodland Prep was not going to be a good charter school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AEA Associate Executive Director Theron Stokes hailed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I hope this case serves as a warning shot to out-of-state corporate interests who may be looking to Alabama to make money in the charter school business,&#8221; Stokes said, accusing Woodland Prep of planning a &#8221;money-grabbing scheme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In early August, the AEA filed a lawsuit against Soner Tarim, a Texas-based member of FETO who was seeking to open Woodland Prep charter school in rural southwest Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>According to one of the local reports back then, Tarim was to make more than $300,000 if the charter plan went through, making him the highest-paid official in the poverty-stricken county.<\/p>\n<p>FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured in less than 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>FETO has a considerable presence internationally, particularly in the US, including private schools which serve as a revenue stream for the terror group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA The US state of Alabama shut down a controversial charter school Tuesday with links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) two months before its opening, citing a failure to meet conditions. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission voted to revoke Woodland Prep&#8217;s charter, initially approved in May 2018, for failing to meet conditions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15071,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15070\/revisions\/15071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}