Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup, has died.

Fethullah Gülen was in his eighties and had long been in ill health. U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in July 2016. Charles Mostoller / REUTERS ...

The guard shack at Fethullah Gulen’s compound in Ross Township, Monroe County, on Wednesday. Gulen is a reclusive Muslim cleric who leads a movement that is critical of Turkish President Recep ...

The guard shack at Fethullah Gulen’s compound in Ross Township, Monroe County, on Wednesday. Gulen is a reclusive Muslim cleric who leads a movement that is critical of Turkish President Recep ...

In a rare interview with NPR last year, Gulen said he would not protest if the U.S. decided to extradite him, though he suggested doing so would harm the U.S.' reputation.

Demonstrators hold a plane model with an attached toy, depicting opposition cleric in exile Fethullah Gulen, during the Democracy and Martyrs Rally, organized by Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Erdogan says Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who has been living in Pennsylvania since the late 1990s, was involved in a failed coup in 2016. The government has requested the U.S. send him back ...

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Pro-nationalist university students shout during a protest against U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers during a demonstration in Ankara, on July 21, 2016. Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images ...

The man was believed to be armed, a spokesman for Gulen told Reuters. The compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, where Fethullah Gulen, an influential Islamist cleric from Turkey, lives in exile.

Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup, has died.