Besides Vienna and Sarajevo, a number of other European cities host İHL graduate university students. However, İHL graduates’ activities are less highly organized in these cities. While a number of institutions clearly play a role in organizing students in Vienna and Sarajevo, the student presence is more individual and loosely tied in other places, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, Hungary and Albania. Of these countries, I had the chance to conduct a limited number of interviews with İHL graduates in the Netherlands and Germany.

To start with the Netherlands, the İHL graduates in the country whom I was able to contact were either the children of migrant Turkish workers who had been sent temporarily to Turkey to study at AİHLS, or İHL graduates who were closely associated with other Turkish religious communities. Cüneyt had been sent by his family to study at a Turkish AİHL. After he finished high school, he returned to the Netherlands and started to study at university there. During his university days, Cüneyt stayed with his family, just as he had done before going to Turkey for his high school education. Thus, his situation was totally different from that of other Turkish İHL students, and lay beyond the scope of this research. On the other hand, İHL graduates like Cüneyt can be the respondents of a different academic research, one which focuses on the AİHLS and their European students.

Selçuk was another type of İHL graduate in the Netherlands. He came from a rural-based family in Turkey, and was sent to the local İHL. During his days at the İHL, he started to build close links with the Fethullah Gülen community. After graduation, he came to the Netherlands with the help of the Gülen community, and now he works as a member of the community (he prefers to call himself a ‘volunteer’). As he was in the Netherlands as a member of the Gülen community, it is not possible to draw inferences about İHL graduates in Europe based on Selçuk's case.

Selçuk's position is also explanatory for the two İHL Alumni associations in the Netherlands that are now totally inactive.