U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkey, has died. He was 83.
An undated capture taken from a video shows Fetullah Gulen, leader of a group that the Turkish government alleges was behind the defeated 2016 coup in Turkiye and has designated the Fetullah Terrorist Organization's ,. Social media accounts associated with the Fetullah Terrorist Organization have claimed that the organization's ringleader, Fethullah Gulen , has died.The U.S.
Gulen, who had lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, denied involvement in the putsch but his movement was designated as a terrorist group by Turkey. According to its followers, Gulen's movement - known as "Hizmet" which means "service" in Turkish - seeks to spread a moderate brand of Islam that promotes Western-style education, free markets and interfaith communication.
In 1959, Gulen was appointed as a mosque imam in the northwestern city of Edirne and came to prominence as a preacher in the 1960s in the western province of Izmir, where he set up student dormitories and would go to tea houses to preach. Fidan said he hoped Gulen's death would lift a "spell" over Turkish youth who had taken a path of "betrayal" against their country under the pretence of religious values. "This is not a good road," he added.Gulen had been a close ally of Erdogan and his AK Party, but growing tensions in their relationship exploded in December 2013 when corruption investigations targeting ministers and officials close to Erdogan came to light.
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