{"id":116797,"date":"2024-10-21T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116797"},"modified":"2024-10-21T19:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T12:52:39","slug":"fethullah-gulen-turkish-cleric-accused-of-coup-attempts-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116797","title":{"rendered":"Fethullah Gulen, Turkish Cleric Accused of Coup Attempts, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fethullah Gulen, the Islamic preacher who was a major ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey before being accused of plotting a failed coup against him in 2016, has died. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gulen died late Sunday in a hospital in the United States, where he had lived in self-imposed exile since 1999, according to the social media account of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Herkul_Nagme\/status\/1848217998445642072\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Herkul<\/a>, a website that posted his sermons. It did not mention a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his own rise as an Islamist in a staunchly secular country, Mr. Erdogan found useful political allies in Mr. Gulen\u2019s followers. But the two men later had a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/20\/world\/europe\/growing-corruption-inquiry-hits-close-to-turkish-leader.html\" title=\"\">falling out<\/a>, and in 2016 the Turkish government designated the Islamic movement founded by Mr. Gulen as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gulen began as a provincial preacher in Turkey and created an international movement called Hizmet, or \u201cservice\u201d in Turkish, that ran schools in many countries and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/turkey-coup-erdogan\/who-is\/\" title=\"\">promoted a vision of Islam<\/a> that supported free markets, science and interfaith dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his detractors, and indeed enemies, accused his movement of working toward more sinister goals. For more than a decade, his followers, known as Gulenists, worked closely with Mr. Erdogan\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party, angering Turks who said the two Islamist groups were working together to erode the foundations of Turkey\u2019s secular republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Erdogan\u2019s political alliance with the Gulenists began to break down about a decade ago, finally shattering after the 2016 coup attempt. About 250 people had been killed by the time the Turkish government shut down the rebellion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Erdogan held Mr. Gulen responsible for the failed coup and began a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/31\/world\/europe\/turkey-kenya-gulen.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">vast purge in its aftermath,<\/a> imposing a state of emergency for two years, detaining 100,000 people and purging 150,000 public employees from their jobs. More than 8,000 military personnel were prosecuted on charges of complicity in the insurrection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crackdown shuttered Gulenist schools and newspapers in Turkey and effectively destroyed the movement as an overt force in Turkish society and politics. Many of its prominent figures went into exile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gulen denied that his group had anything to do with the attempted coup and lived a largely reclusive life in Pennsylvania, a fact that fueled frequent but unproven accusations from Mr. Erdogan and other Turkish officials that the preacher was an American asset who had been deployed to weaken Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Turkish government tried for years to have Mr. Gulen extradited to stand trial, but the United States never agreed to send him back to Turkey, leading to longstanding diplomatic tensions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/world\/europe\/fethullah-gulen-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fethullah Gulen, the Islamic preacher who was a major ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey before being accused of plotting a failed coup against him in 2016, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116797\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}