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Morocco shuts down all schools linked to Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen

Xinhua, January 6, 2017 Adjust font size:

Morocco has decided to shut down all schools linked to the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, the man Turkish authorities blame for the July coup attempt in the country.

All schools of the "Mohamed Al-Fatih" group linked to Turkish Fethullah Gulen, leader of the "Hizmet" movement, will be closed in Morocco as of this Thursday, for propagation of the ideology of this movement and its founder and the dissemination of ideas contrary to the principles of the Moroccan educational and religious system, the Moroccan interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

The statement said that following investigations carried out by the competent parties concerning the schools, it was found that these institutions, present in several cities of the Kingdom, use the education sector as a "fertile field to propagate the ideology of this movement and its founder and to spread ideas contrary to the principles of the Moroccan educational and religious system."

As for the pupils who study in these schools, the statement noted that the ministry of National Education and Vocational Training will endeavour to redeploy all of them to other schools. Endit