01 October 2018•Update: 01 October 2018
By Tufan Aktas
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
A job advert posted on the internet has proven the lies of the terrorist group behind the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey and its threat in Ethiopia.
Eventus Bildung, a Germany-based company linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), fraudulently took over the group's schools in the African nation.
Last year, shortly after the Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome said the FETO-linked schools will be handed to the Turkish government, the schools were sold to a German citizen, whom they claimed was an investor.
The job advert, which is still active on the website "ebay-kleinanzeigen.de" by Eventus Bildung -- one of the German branches of FETO -- is seeking teachers who would work at the "Intellectual Schools" in the capital Addis Ababa as well as the northern Ethiopian city of Mekelle.
The Eventus Bildung, which also operates FETO schools in Germany, has revealed that the terror group sold the schools to itself by posting the vacancy announcement.
Ali Bulbul is the general director of the FETO institution that operates a large number of kindergartens and courses.
FETO's 'charitable trusts'
On Friday, former employees of Ethiopian FETO-linked schools filed a complaint against school administrators and teachers on allegations including the theft of aid money, embezzlement, and tax evasion, said sources familiar with the issue, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media.
The documents show that the terror group had been operating schools under the Omeriye Educational and Medical Foundation Charitable Trust label, but then in 2009 sold all the schools’ assets to a company called Kaynak.
The FETO-linked company Kaynak illegally sold FETO-linked foundations to Stem, a FETO corporation in Ethiopia, after Teshome announced last year that FETO schools would be handed over Turkey.
After the fraudulent transfer, the five FETO-affiliated schools were renamed "Intellectual Schools".
Over the past month, at least six new Turkish teachers started working in these schools without receiving approval of their diploma from Turkey's Embassy in Addis Ababa.
Adnan Azak, known as the former so-called "British Imam" of the terror group, went to Ethopia to stop the transfer of the schools to the Turkish government.
Azak has been visiting Ethiopia frequently since last year. It is known that the schools in the East African nation are managed by Celil Aydin who has lived in the country for years.
Defeated coup, schools abroad
FETO has been accused elsewhere of moving around its assets around in shell games to protect its illegal gains from prosecutors, as shown in a 2016 case in the U.S. state of New Jersey also involving schools.
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, including the military, police, and education.
FETO also has a considerable presence outside Turkey, including private educational institutions that serve as a revenue stream for the terrorist group.
