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January 1, 2012
The Turkish imam and his global educational mission
Pelin Turgut
October, 1992. the Soviet Union has disbanded and chaos reigns in its former territories. Three times a week, a rattly Russian charter plane filled with young Muslim devotees flies east from Istanbul across barren, low-lying steppes to the capitals of Central Asia. The men are clean-cut, sharply dressed in dark suits and ties, trim of mustache and purposeful. It is the first foray out of their hometown for most, let alone on a plane, but such is their faith in Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish Muslim imam they revere. "Fly like swallows," Gülen exhorted, "to these countries that are newly free, as an expression of our brotherhood."
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