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Fethullah Gülen
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement, which as of 2010 had 8-10 million of followers globally and had established a network of over 2,000 STEM focused schools in more than 150 countries. Gülen was an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theolo…
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culture · Turkish scholar, theologian and dissident (1941–2024) · social activist · writer · preacher · intellectual · opinion journalist · imam · Islamic religious leaders · also Fethullah Gülen, Muhammad Fethullah Gülen, Gülen
Born 27 April 1941 · Died 20 October 2024 · Q488200
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Turkey’s president is blackmailing the United States by threatening to curb his country’s support for the international coalition against the Islamic State. His goal: to ensure my extradition, despite a lack of credible evidence and virtually no prospect for a fair trial. The temptation to give Mr. Erdogan whatever he wants is understandable. But the United States must resist it.
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2026· 6 entries
“Turkey’s president is blackmailing the United States by threatening to curb his country’s support for the international coalition against the Islamic State. His goal: to ensure my extradition, despite a lack of credible evidence and virtually no prospect for a fair trial. The temptation to give Mr. Erdogan whatever he wants is understandable. But the United States must resist it.”
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“faith and morality and a lesser extent toward political ends, and self described as rejecting an Islamist political philosophy, advocating instead for full participation within professions, society, and political life by religious and secular individuals who profess high moral or ethical principles and who wholly support secular rule, within Muslim-majority countries and elsewhere. Gülen was described in the English-language media as an imam”
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Yeni Safak English: Turkey to request extradition of Gülen from the US
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Fethullah Gülen | Movement, Schools, Beliefs, & Alleged Coup Involvement
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Public attention spiked: 3,268 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.4× the usual 390, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: 2016 coup attempt, Extradition request, U.S.–Turkey tensions HTTP to HTTPS for Wayback Machine, replaced: http://web.archive.org/ → https://web.archive.org/
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2024· 11 entries
Yahoo: Thousands mourn Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish spiritual leader who died in the US
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Newsweek: Turkish Spiritual Leader Fethullah Gülen Dies in U.S.
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KSAT: Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in the US
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bianet: Fethullah Gülen, accused of orchestrating the 2016 coup attempt, dies at 83
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UPI: Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, accused of being behind 2016 coup, dies in United States
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CNN: Fethullah Gulen, Turkish cleric once blamed for failed coup attempt, dies at 83
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CBS News: Fethullah Gülen, U.S.-based cleric accused of masterminding 2016 coup attempt in native Turkey, has died
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Yahoo: Fethullah Gülen, alleged mastermind of Turkey coup plot, dead at 83
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Fethullah Gulen, Rival Of Turkey's Erdogan, Dies In Exile
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The Boston Globe: Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in Pennsylvania
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Died 2024-10-20.
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2017· 3 entries
“Accusations against me related to the coup attempt are baseless, politically motivated slanders.”
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch separately issued statements urging governments to avoid extraditions to Turkey
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Reports identified four candidates to succeed Gulen, if necessary, in leadership of the Hizmet movement: Mehmet Ali Şengül, Cevdet Türkyolu, Osman Şimşek and Ahmet Kurucan
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2016· 4 entries
Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), Mehmet Görmez, said Gülen is a "fake Mahdi movement"
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When Erdoğan government began openly targeting the movement, they seized assets worth over $12 billion, including 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities, and 35 medical i
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Due to his support for Gülen
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And Turkey demanded his extradition from the United States
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2015· 1 entry
Oklahoma City Thunder basketball player and human rights activist Enes Kanter said that he was excluded from the Turkish national basketball team for his public support of Gülen
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2014· 1 entry
“If I were to say anything to people I may say people should vote for those who are respectful to democracy, rule of law, who get on well with people. Telling or encouraging people to vote for a party would be an insult to peoples”
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2013· 1 entry
Gulen criticized Erdogan's harsh response to the Gezi Park protestors
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2012· 1 entry
Erdoğan called on Gülen to return to Turkey, but Gülen did not take up the invitation
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2011· 1 entry
Which became common knowledge by the time of the corruption investigations of highly placed members of Turkey's ruling party in 2013
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2008· 2 entries
Under the new Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a move that signaled cooperation between Erdoğan's AKP (whose Islamist ideas were becoming increasingly popular), and
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“Turkish people... are upset that in the last two years democratic progress is now being reversed”
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2007· 1 entry
Due to perceived threats of a coup, which both groups believed would harm their interests
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2005· 1 entry
A man affiliated with the Gülen movement approached U
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2003· 2 entries
A number of Gülen movement participants allied with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's right wing Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the AKP political and sorely-needed administrative support
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A number of Gülen movement participants pivoted from the Turkish political center to become the junior partner with the newly ruling Erdoğan-led and center-right Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the party p
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2000· 3 entries
And found guilty of conspiring to embed his supporters into the Turkish civil service in important governmental offices to overthrow the government
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And acquitted of these charges in 2008 under Erdoğan's AKP government
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Before Erdoğan's party had come into power
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1998· 1 entry
Or the Virtue Party in 2001, or meeting with the leaders of political Islamist parties, although he did meet with some other politicians from both the left and the right like Turgut Özal, Tansu Çiller, Bülent Ecevit
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1994· 1 entry
Helped found the Journalists and Writers Foundation, which started dialogue among Muslims, secularists, traditionalists, atheists, Christians, leftists and modernists to discuss and debate common positions on key con
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1976· 1 entry
With there being informal sohbets (Quranic discussions) available there for the students as well
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-04-27.
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