Fethullah Gülen: who is the man blamed by Turkey's president for coup attempt?

Cleric who leads global Hizmet movement from exile in Pennyslvania, US, is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and remains influential in Turkish affairs The accusation by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen is behind Friday night's attempted coup is part of a familiar rhetoric and a long-running rivalry. So is there any truth in it? It is probably worth pointing out in the first instance that the traditional rivalry in Turkish society has been between ...