Erdogan Seeks to Vanquish Opponent Gulen in Global Fight

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s struggle to get rid of his self-declared political enemies is going global.

After purging thousands of officials he said were followers of Fethullah Gulen, a cleric blamed for undermining his government, Erdogan is targeting an international network of charter schools run by Gulen’s movement. Since the start of the year, schools in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Gambia have closed, and education officials in Somalia, Pakistan and northern Iraq say they have come under pressure from the Turkish government to follow suit.