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Turkey's Sweeping "Educational" Penetration into the Balkans gatestoneinstitute.org/13639/turkey-b…
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is building a huge mosque in Tirana, Albania, to add to the kindergarden, primary-, middle- and high-schools, and university it runs in the city.
Erdogan repeatedly has said that his government aims to raise "devout generations" in Turkey. To this end, he has Islamized Turkey's education system. Now he is working on exporting Islamized curricula to Europe. 
"Turkey's experience in religious education is very important to us, as it has advanced in a remarkable way. If we also use the imam hatip school method in our countries, in ten years we could also have a president [such as Erdogan] raised in an imam hatip school." —
Participants in a conference of school administrators from Europe and the Balkans, 2017, according to the Maarif Foundation.
"...[J]ihad is obligatory until judgment day... in some places, jihad is done with the pen; in others it is done with the tongue.”
"...[J]ihad is obligatory until judgment day... in some places, jihad is done with the pen; in others it is done with the tongue.”
“And in some other places, it is carried out with guns. What is your jihad in the lands where you reside?”
“If Muslims are persecuted somewhere, it is because there is no caliphate where they live." — Nureddin Yıldız, one of the first members of the World Union of Scholars from Turkey and also the founding member of the Union of Scholars in Turkey, in a fatwa on his website.
