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We examined the important points in the life of Fethullah Gülen, who died at the age of 83, from his birthplace in Erzurum to İzmir, where he laid the foundations of the Gülen movement, to Pennsylvania, where he lived in self-imposed exile, to the 2016 coup attempt. Gülen and the organization named after him have been a much-discussed movement in Turkey for decades. Who was Gülen and why was the organization he founded described as a “parallel state structure” by President Erdoğan?