Turkish daily Yeni Şafak continues to expose the dark past of the U.S.-based so called Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, who was accused of trying to overthrow the elected Turkish government by forming an armed terror organization.
A letter of complaint, sent to the DIYANET, the top religious authority of Turkey, by a former evangelist, claimed that Gülen was working as a spy.
One of the 1960's evangelists, Salih Cemal Esirger, informed the country's religious affairs about Gülen's espionage activities and asked to take measures.
He complained that Gülen declared himself as Mahdi, and tried to earn money from the innocent Anatolian people by using this identity. Esirger underlined Gülen's link with the Jewish communities, while describing that Gülen dominates on craftsmen and tradesmen.
Esirger, a former preacher of the Kestanepazarı Mosque, said that Gülen established the Kesanepazari foundation to help Muslims. He claimed that he witnessed that Gülen received money several times from Jewish community.
Esirgen was a retired teacher and was paid for his preaching works by the government religious affairs .
Fethullah Gülen, known as an Islamic cleric, is the leader of the Turkey-based Gülen Movement, which is weaving its work through hundreds of schools worldwide. The leader of the movement has been living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, USA, since 1999, and repeatedly rejected calls to return to Turkey. The movement became widely spread after Turkey started to stand on a base of democracy in 2002. In 2013 the movement-affiliated 'parallel structure', an illegal formation inside the Turkish police department, judiciary and other public institutions, tried to make a civil coup to overthrow the elected Government led by the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan.
The structure wiretapped hundreds of thousands of political figures, including top government officials such as the prime minister, intelligence chief, foreign minister and other ministers, journalists, academicians and businessmen. The Government launched a wide-scale operation against the parallel structure. On December 19, 2014, a Turkish court found Gülen guilty of being the primary suspect over forming an illegal armed terrorist group, trying to make a coup attempt, and destroying the public order, and issued a warrant for his arrest.
