Turkish School, The Southern Kurdistan, The Gülen Movement, Symbolic violence, Social Inequality

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In 1994, the Fezalar Educational Institute started its education activities by opening the Ishik College in Erbil, and by 2018 thirty Gülen-inspired schools (from Kindergarten to High school) and the Ishik University had been established in the KRG. These schools are managed by the Turkish- Islamic scholar, Fathullah Gülen’s ideas about education. Due to the high tuition fees of Turkish schools, only Kurdish high class families can afford to send their children to these schools. This research wants to apply the Bourdieu’s symbolic violence theory and argues that how such an educational system reproduces the social inequalities.