US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen dead at 83

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A erstwhile state of President Erdogan, Gulen was accused of masterminding a failed coup successful 2016 and lived successful exile.

Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says was down a 2016 failed coup, has died successful the United States wherever helium was based, Turkish media and a website associated with Gulen said. He was 83.

Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said connected its X relationship connected Monday that Gulen had died connected Sunday evening successful the infirmary were helium was being treated.

Gulen built Hizmet, a almighty Islamic question successful Turkey and beyond but spent his aboriginal years accused of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish person Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusations which helium denied.

He was a one-time state of Erdogan but they fell retired spectacularly, and Erdogan held him liable for the 2016 attempted coup successful which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters. Some 250 radical were killed successful the bid to prehend power.

Gulen had lived successful self-imposed exile successful the US since 1999.

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