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G？len's Education Network
The core of G？len's network is his educational institutions. His school network is impressive.
Nurettin Veren, G？len's right-hand man for thirty-five years, estimated that some 75 percent of Turkey's two million preparatory school students are enrolled in G？len institutions.
He controls thousands of top-tier secondary schools, colleges, and student dormitories throughout Turkey, as well as private universities, the largest being Fatih University in Istanbul.
Outside Turkey, his movement runs hundreds of secondary schools and dozens of universities in 110 countries worldwide.
G？len's aim is not altruistic: His followers target youth in the eighth through twelfth grades, mentor and indoctrinate them in the ？？？kevi, educate them in the Fethullah schools,
and prepare them for future careers in legal, political, and educational professions in order to create the ruling classes of the future Islamist, Turkish state.
Taking their orders from Fethullah G？len, wealthy followers continue to open schools and ？？？kevi in what Sabah columnist Emre Ak？z called "the education jihad."
The overt network of schools is only one part of a larger strategy. In a 2006 interview, Veren said, "These schools are like shop windows.
Recruitment and Islamization activities are carried out through night classes ... Children whom we educated in Turkey are now in the highest positions.
There are governors, judges, military officers. There are ministers in the government. They consult G？len before doing anything."