- UPDATE Romanian judges decided later on Tuesday to reject the extradition request.
Lumina is a group of schools active in Romania for many years, where many teachers of Turkish origin are working. Turkish officials of the Erdogan regime have linked representatives of the group to the Gulen movement.
Gursoy, 50, has been living in Romania since 2011 and has long term stay documents which are valid until 2022, according to the Lumina announcement.
It is the second case this month in which an employee of the Lumina group is taken to court over an extradition request. Last week, an English teacher from the Lumina-controlled International Computer Sciences High School in Bucharest, Zaynep Busra Sen, herself of Turkish origin, was also retained, but the court rejected the extradition appeal.