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India-Pakistan
SC discards review petition regarding order declaring Pak-Turk education foundation a 'terror outfit'
2019-04-17
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday discarded an application seeking a review of a 2018 order that had directed the interior ministry to declare the Pak-Turk International Cag Education Foundation (PTICEF)
...one of many Gulenist education organizations loathed by would-be neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First, “the much beloved”...
a proscribed organization and ordered that the control of educational institutions, being run by the PTICEF, be handed to Turkiye Maarif Foundation.
Turkey established the Maarif Foundation in 2016, after the so-called coup attempt, to take over the administration of Gulenist overseas schools. It is also supposed to establish its own schools and education centers abroad.
On December 13, 2018, a local lawyer, Sohail Sajid, had filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court and requested it to declare the group a terrorist outfit in the country. The petitioner had also requested that the custody of Pak-Turk Schools be granted to Turkiye Maarif Foundation.

Announcing its verdict in the aforementioned case, the apex court had ordered the interior ministry to include the name of PTICEF in the first schedule to Section 11-B of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

The apex court had also directed the country’s financial institutions to immediately freeze the bank accounts of PTICEF and give the custody of such assets to Turkiye Maarif Foundation.

Justice Ijazul Ehsan, who was part of the three-member bench headed by Justice Azmat Saeed today, said that 40 other countries have also shut these schools down, and that the PTICEF has been declared a proscribed organization.

During the hearing, the lawyer for the Pak-Turk school administration maintained that the Ottoman Turkish government had no role in the establishment of the schools, it was the Ottoman Turkish population that had generated the funds for the creation of the schools.
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