Likening the terrorist organization to a “cancer,” he said FETO also posed a threat to US security. Moreover, the FETO charter schools in the US charge US taxpayers for education while favoring white children and discriminating against Black and minority-linked children, he said, underlining that this approach fully contradicted with US principles. Because at the end of the day, you cannot be a cult member and be an advocate for human rights, because the very nature of this cult is to deny essential freedoms for non-believers,” he said. “This man (Kanter), who is parading as a human rights figure, has a lot to explain in terms of his relationship to Gulen…the very nature of the human rights he is attempting to defend. Something “very interesting” came up as Amsterdam’s firm was investigating the ties of Kanter’s foundation – the Enes Kanter Freedom Foundation – with other establishments in the US as it just happens that this foundation occupied the same address with a company called Arlington Strategic Supplies and Manufacturing LLC.

And no one in the Republican Party has taken the time to ask this foreign policy genius about his relationship to the Gulen organization,” he said. “A human-rights activist (that is) self-appointed, a critic of Turkey, but a man whose Gulenist credentials never seem to come out in the American press. These deceptions of FETO are included in the 700-page book,' he added.Īmsterdam said the schools, which pledge allegiance to Gulen, were established and strengthened thanks to connections with influential foundations like the Rumi Forum, whose meetings have been attended by major American political figures including Hillary Clinton, which enabled the FETO affiliates to develop strong relations with the politicians there while the American public were not aware of such an organization’s close ties with the terror group.īut FETO's operations in the US are no longer smooth since the US Department of Education took a look at Amsterdam's first book, 'Empire of Deceit: An Investigation of the Gulen Charter School Network,' and now FETO must be transparent in its actions, including real estate contracts through which it generates revenue by increasing its costs, according to Amsterdam.Īnother highlight of his speech at the presentation were the relations between FETO and Enes Kanter, a former NBA basketball player and the self-styled 'adopted' son of FETO leader Gulen who now gives lectures in the US community on human rights while developing deep ties with American politicians. It goes out of the pockets of taxpayers and 250 schools are financed with this money. The economy in these schools is more like the American economy. We are talking about an estimated $4 billion economy. This is both economically important and organizationally.

'Let me just say that the Gulen schools are like a vital organ for the organization. “We are talking about what we estimate to be $4 billion… going into FETO’s coffers as a result of the public funding and taxpayer funding of the now 250 FETO schools throughout the US,” added Amsterdam, who is the owner of the law firm Amsterdam & Partners (LLP). “It is absolutely without doubt clear that not only have the Gulen schools served as the vital source of funding for the Gulen organization and FETO but that the corruption of US procurement is widespread,” said Amsterdam, referring to FETO’s US-based leader Fetullah Gulen, who the Turkish government blames for orchestrating a failed coup attempt in Türkiye on Jin which 251 people were killed and 2,734 injured. In 'Empire Of Deceit: Vol II: Web of Influence,' Amsterdam sheds light on the organization of the FETO-affiliated schools in the US and the corruption surrounding them, including financial violations and misconduct. Canadian international lawyer Robert Amsterdam unveiled his second book on the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) and how it defrauds the US education system and taxpayers to fund its network of charter schools in the country during a presentation Thursday at a hotel in Istanbul.

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