# Fethullah Gülen **Fethullah Gülen** (1941–2024) — Turkish Islamic cleric who led the worldwide Gülen (Hizmet) movement from self-imposed exile in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, from 1999 until his death in October 2024. Once [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]'s ally, he became the regime's designated arch-enemy: Ankara blamed him for the July 2016 coup attempt, demanded his extradition for years (the U.S. never granted it), and purged tens of thousands of alleged "FETÖ" followers. His significance for this vault is as the *target* of the [[Michael Flynn]] affair — the undisclosed $530K Turkish lobbying campaign against him that became the original Trump-world [[FARA]] scandal, documented in [[Turkey]]. ## See Also - [[Turkey]] - [[Michael Flynn]] - [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]]