The danger of Turkish educational institutions in Kyrgyzstan. The bloody Turkish experience

July 2016 is remembered for an attempt of the military takeover in Turkey. The coup failed, but its value impressed everybody. As a result, more than 7500 people, including general officers of Turkish army and government regulators, were arrested for the coup complicity.
The Turkish authorities have accused khatib Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the USA, of coup’s organization and have delivered an extradition request.
Fethullah Gülen is a leader of FETO, the organization that through the Hizmet Movement owns the network of private lyceums «Sebat» and «Atatürk-Alatoo University» on the Kyrgyzstan’s territory.
Nowadays, 16 lyceums «Sebat» and 2 international schools - Silk Road and Cambridge work across Kyrgyzstan, and apart from giving an education they publish books, magazines and organize conferences. An active work is made in relation to alumni, who in turn create different organizations, increasing FETO’s influence.
In 2015, close to FETO educational institutions provided a basis for the campus in one of the central Bishkek’s regions. According to Turkish news agency «Anadolu», the property of educational organization, controlled by FETO, is valued at more than $100 million. The number of employees is 2200 people. More than 10000 students get education in the Sebat network and the Atatürk-Alatoo University. The system Sebat has been functioning in Kyrgyzstan since 1993 and has prepared more than 10 generations of alumni during this period.
The Sebat’s lyceums are considered to be exclusive and its students are mostly consist of the national high rankers’ children.
Before the coup’s attempt, the were already some questions connected with the «Sebat» system functioning in Kyrgyzstan. These lyceums got an unusual governmental support; the education was based on its own but not the state’s standards. A positive image was formed because the school leavers showed good results and the students were helped with an employment. An opportunity to influence the children’s minds forming is a direct opportunity to influence their parents’ decisions. It became extremely clear in relation to the events in Turkey, July 2016. The Turkish side declared that the coup happened due to the long-term FETO’s activity on the Turkish territory, where the organization also educated and brought up the national elite, whose representatives later supported the coup.
Today there are many discussions about the role and future of the system, controlled by FETO. A dean of the other Turkish Manas University in Kyrgyzstan outlined that the kirghiz authorities should learn a lesson from the events in Turkey, «In my opinion, the related to us Kirghiz nation and Kirghiz Authorities should deeply study it and draw a logical conclusion. It is important to take into account, that people acted in such a terrible way with their nation at their motherland definitely wouldn’t act nicer in Kyrgyzstan. Therefore it is necessary to decide».
The teacher of the humanitarian faculty in the Manas University Fahri Unan outlined the necessity to close the educational institutions, belonged to the movement, «The institutions, belonged to the movement can be given under the responsibility of other universities. Unless some measures are taken, they will continue to spread their ideas».
Many people believe that the Kyrgyzstan government has a positive attitude to Sebat, because the officials’ children, working now on the different levels of civil service, were educated there. Even if the authorities will decide to make some radical steps, they won’t do it in the nearest future.
In resent time, the Turkish Foreign Ministry put pressure on the kirghiz government. July 23, 2016 the Turkish President Recep Erdogan signed a document, meaning the closing of connected with Fethullah Gülen’s institutions.
Kirghiz authorities, as it often happens, have decided to follow their own way. In the annual press conferences The Kirghiz President Almazbek Atambayev sad, «I gave a task to rewrite their Charter and make the system a part of Ministry of Education and Science. I know Sebat as a usual school. We will rename it in Sapat. God helps those who help themselves. We won’t close the schools. We will tighten control just in case, although it was always under control», also mentioned that everyone is aware of Sebat’s activity.
It is, if not to say more, criminally for Kyrgyzstan that has gone through 2 revolutions and a bloody struggle of ethnic conflict for the last 2 years, to ignore the organization, leading a very methodic work directing to education and developing of an extremism-loyal people.