US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of Turkey coup attempt, dies at 83

Islamic leader Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his home in Saylorsburg, US [File: Chris Post/AP]

Turkish Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup, has died in the United States where he was based, Turkish media and a website associated with Gulen said. He was 83.

Herkul, a website which publishes Gulen’s sermons, said on its X account on Monday that Gulen had died on Sunday evening in the hospital where he was being treated.