Fetullah Gülen, a scholar, preacher and former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who Ankara accused of fomenting the 2016 coup, has died in the US where he was based, Turkish media and a website close to Gülen said. Herkul, a website which publishes Gülen’s sermons, said on its X account that Gulen, 83, had died on Sunday evening in the hospital where he was being treated. Gülen, who founded a powerful religious movement in Turkey known as Hizmet, had lived in a self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania after falling out with Erdoğan and his AK party. The failed coup in Turkey on 15 July 2016, …