Gulen, accused of orchestrating a coup in Turkiye, dies

The US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkiye and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has died, Reuters reports. He was 83. Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account that Gulen died yesterday evening in the US hospital where he was being treated. Gulen was a one-time ally of Erdogan but they fell out spectacularly, and Erdogan held him responsible for the 2016 attempted coup in which rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, tanks and helicopters. Some 250 people were killed in the bid to seize power. Gulen, who had lived in self-imposed exile in the United States […]