TURKEY’S ANADOLU AGENCY EVALUATING REPORTS OF DEATH OF FETHULLAH GULEN IN US

Fri 19 November 2021:

According to Turkish Anadolu Agency Washington Bureau Chief Hakan Copur, information about the death of dissident Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen in the United States is being evaluated.

“We are closely following what is happening. Sources in the US police and local media are not giving information on this matter. This does not mean that nothing happened on the estate. Probably, something happened, and it was not reported to the police.

However, the organization (of Gulen) will not be able to keep it hidden for long,” Сopur wrote on Twitter.

Feto’nun zehirlendiği, ölmüş olabileceği, onu zehirleyenin öldürüldüğü yönündeki iddiaları biz de yakından takip ediyor ve araştırıyoruz.

İddialara konu olan olaylarla ilgili bölgedeki polis kaynaklarına ve yerel medyaya yansıyan bir durum yok.
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— Hakan Copur (@hakancopur1) November 17, 2021

Turkish opposition news portal Oda TV claims that Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused by Ankara of attempting a coup d’etat, may have been poisoned and is already dead. As the portal reported on Thursday, the video of Gulen FETO’s organization confirming that he is alive is a montage.

Oda TV claims Gulen was poisoned at his Pennsylvania home in the United States on Wednesday night. Another person from his circle is also dead. Villa employees have been ordered not to communicate with the press. The portal emphasizes that these data were confirmed to him by representatives of the special services.

Meanwhile, Gulen’s organization has released a video in which its leader sits in a chair and prays. However, Oda TV considers the video to be a montage of three previously unveiled videos showing the preacher wearing the same clothes.

There is no official or more specific information regarding Gulen’s condition in other Turkish media so far.

On July 15, 2016, a group of soldiers and officers of the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d’état. The main confrontation unfolded in Istanbul and Ankara, 250 people died, not counting the putschists, more than 2 thousand were injured. Ankara accuses the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen and the FETO associated with him of preparing the coup.