Who is Fethullah Gulen?


Date posted: July 18, 2016

CNN’s Ivan Watson looks at Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish cleric living in the US who President Erdogan squarely blames for the deadly failed

Source: CNN , July 17, 2016


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