Turkish educational foundation says accounts frozen on bogus charges
The Nesin Foundation, which built Turkey’s famous Mathematics Village, says its accounts were blocked on unfair charges after it conflicted with a neighboring Islamist foundation.
An award-winning Turkish foundation supporting education claimed that its bank accounts were blocked on bogus charges following a conflict with a religious sect with ties to the government.
“This is enough,” Ali Nesin, the son of iconoclast Turkish writer Aziz Nesin, announced May 8 on Twitter. “The Istanbul governor’s office blocked the Nesin Foundation’s bank accounts. Our foundation has salaried employees and many kids on scholarship — what they have done is cruel.”
