Gulen Turkish Cultural Center of Albany sponsors free trip to Turkey for legislatures, educators - anyone that can help support their movement

In front of the Grand Mosque of Istanbul, which was formaly a Church called St. Hagia Sofia then converted by the Ottomans who the Gulenists want to reinstate to control a neo-Ottoman Empire with the Gulen Golden Generation that is being developed worldwide via the Gulen Turkish Schools.

Veysel Ucan, left, Turkish Cultural Center of Albany director, Seth Leech, immigration lawyer, Mara Dodge, Westfield State College history professor, Valerie Haskins, SUNY Adirondack anthropology professor, Nancy Ota, Albany Law School professor, Jerry Shaye, director of international trade for New York state, and Adem Alp, TCCA board member, pose for a picture in front of Aya Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday, June 3, 2012. TCCA organized a ten-day tour of Turkey sponsored by a Turkish civic movement. (Yi-Ke Peng / Times Union

ISTANBUL — The Turkish Cultural Center of Albany, it turns out, is part of a huge but often little-known global movement rooted within the Muslim world that promotes tolerance, service to humanity and better math and science education through the establishment of schools.

This month, the center, housed in a small building in Menands, led a group of six professionals from the Capital Region, including a Times Union reporter, on a 10-day complimentary tour of Turkey with sponsorship from a nonprofit organization within Turkey.

The center has led four similar trips in previous years that included a total of about 20 state legislators, according its director, Veysel Ucan.

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