Turkey Turkish cleric Gülen dies in the USA

The alleged mastermind of the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, Fethullah Gülen, is dead. The 83-year-old cleric died on Sunday evening in a hospital in the US state of Pennsylvania, said Ercan Karakoyun, chairman of the Dialogue and Education Foundation. The foundation is the German branch of the transnational Gülen movement, which runs schools, tutoring centers and kindergartens in Germany, among other things.

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