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.

A Turkish cleric accused of planning a failed coup has died aged 83 in the United States, the country’s authorities confirmed on Monday.

Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, the man behind the powerful Islamic movement in Turkey, died at the age of 83. According to Al Jazeera, Gülen died in the United States on Sunday, October 20, 2024. He was accused of masterminding