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Gulen thanks Greece for welcoming refugees fleeing the Erdogan regime.

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Gulen thanks Greece for welcoming refugees fleeing the Erdogan regime.

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US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen on Friday thanked Greece for welcoming refugees fleeing the Erdogan regime.

Gulen sent a video message to an online promotional event in Athens for a book written about him.

“Greece is a sister country,” Gulen said. “Thanks to this brotherhood, we remember them with gratitude and appreciation. [What Greece did] will be written on the glorious pages of history with gold and silver.”

The book, Fethullah Gulen: A Life of Service, was written by US historian Jon Pahl and translated into Greek by Papazisis Publishers in Greece.

Turkey experienced a ‘military coup attempt’ on July 15, 2016 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the movement.

Although the Gülen movement strongly denies having any role in the putsch, the government accuses it of having masterminded the foiled coup. Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, called for an international investigation into the coup attempt, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.

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