SAYLORSBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Fethullah Gulen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing unproven accusations that he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died.
The Alliance for Shared Values, a New York-based group that promotes Gulen's work in the U.S., said that Gulen died Sunday night at a hospital near his home in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac Jr. said he was informed that Gulen, who was in his 80s and had long been in ill health, died of natural causes.
