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US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen dead: Turkish TV

Published: 21 Oct 2024 - 09:53 am | Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024 - 09:54 am
(Files) A handout picture released by Zaman Daily shows exiled Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen at his residence on September 24, 2013 in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Selahattin Sevi / Zaman Daily / AFP)

(Files) A handout picture released by Zaman Daily shows exiled Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen at his residence on September 24, 2013 in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Selahattin Sevi / Zaman Daily / AFP)

AFP

Istanbul: Turkish public television reported Monday that US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says masterminded a failed 2016 coup, has died.

Citing posts on X and social media by groups close to Gulen, they said the 83-year-old died in hospital overnight.