US-based Fethullah Gulen Dead: Turkish Media

Mon Oct 21 2024
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ISTANBUL: Turkish public television has reported that US-based Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey says masterminded a failed 2016 coup, has passed away.

AFP cited posts on social media by groups close to Gulen, they added that the 83-year-old passed away in hospital overnight. According to media reports, Gulen had lived in Pennsylvania since 1999. Fethullah Gulen was stripped of his Turkish citizenship in 2017, according to AFP.

 

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