FISH: A Turkish network in Africa: the Gülen movement – (September 11/Johannesburg)

Gabrielle Angey-Sentuc

PhD Candidate, EHESS /French Institute of Anatolian Studies

A Turkish network in Africa: the Gülen movement

 

This conference aims to present and analyse the expansion of a transnational network in the 21^st century: the Turkish educational network of Fethullah Gülen. The movement under study, inspired by former Turkish Imam and influential intellectual Fethullah Gülen, is today a powerful movement in the field of education, economics and religion in Turkey and the rest of the world. Over the past fifteen years or so, this movement turned to Sub-Saharan Africa. In this seminar, we will proceed with an analysis of the transnational expansion of the movement and will then analyse the relocation of its action in the African context.

Wednesday 11 September, 14:00

venue: Conference Room, 62 Juta Street,

1^st floor, Braamfontein, Johannesburg