Associated Press
Family, friends and followers of Fethullah Gülen are gathering to pay respects to the influential Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who died this week in self-exile in the United States. A funeral prayer service is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Sussex County, New Jersey. According to the Alliance for Shared Values, a New York-based group that promotes Gülen’s work in the U.S., thousands of mourners are expected. Gülen inspired a global social movement while facing unproven allegations that he orchestrated a failed 2016 military coup against Turkey’s president. He died Sunday at a Pennsylvania hospital. He was in his 80s.
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