"Fulbright scholar: Turkey is model Muslim state
Speaker talks Muslim research, business, sports to audience
By Helen Clarke
CLEVELAND — Selcuk Akgul thinks of his trip to Wisconsin as a pilgrimage, and he has no qualms in calling himself a pilgrim.
A Muslim man, Akgul has taken Hajj — one of the Five Pillars of Islam — to a new level with the modern interpretation of the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca that he came to know while growing up in Turkey. And on Tuesday, he told an audience of about 75 people at Lakeshore Technical College that Turkey is a model state for the rest of the Muslim world. "
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