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Fethullah Gülen, the US-based Muslim cleric who allegedly masterminded the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, has died, said a foundation in Germany linked to his movement. He was 83. Gülen died on Sunday evening at a hospital in the US state of Pennsylvania, said the chairman of the Dialogue and Education Foundation, Ercan Karakoyun, on Monday. The foundation is the German branch of the transnational Gülen movement, also known as Hizmet, which runs schools, tutoring centres and kindergartens in Germany. Turkey blamed Gulen and his movement for a bloody coup attempt on July 15, 2016, by a faction of…

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