Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Turkish President Erdogan who became his archenemy, died Sunday. Gulen, who had been living in US exile since 1999, was accused by Ankara of being the mastermind of a failed 2016 coup.

Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup, has died.

Mr. Gulen, who lived in the United States, was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in 2016.

Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, a longtime bitter rival of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who has been blamed for a deadly failed coup attempt in 2016, has died at age 83, according to Turkish officials and social media accounts linked to the cleric’s movement.

U.S.-based Muslim preacher and educator Fethullah Gulen, who was accused by Turkey of organizing a failed coup in 2016, has died in exile in the United States aged 83.

Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish dissident cleric, accused of orchestrating an abortive 2016 coup in the country, died Sunday. He was 83 years old.

Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish-born Muslim cleric who oversaw a global network of schools, media outlets, think tanks and charities

Gulen's movement - known as "Hizmet" which means "service" in Turkish - seeks to spread a moderate brand of Islam that promotes Western-style education, free markets and interfaith communication.

STORY: The U.S.-based Turkish political dissident Fethullah Gülen has died.Gülen built a religious movement in his home country and later lived in self-imposed exile in the United States where his influence continued to provoke the wrath of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

Fetullah Gulen, an exiled cleric who died in the United States, was head of a Turkish movement its followers say spreads moderate Islam and Western-style ideas. Formerly an ally of Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan,