26.07.2016 - 15:31 [ Mevlut Cavusoglu / Al Jazeera ]

Turkey: The night of the ordinary hero

For more than 30 years Fethullah Gulen has encouraged his followers to infiltrate the military and judiciary in Turkey.

Hidden camera footage from 1997 reveals Gulen telling his followers to „avoid detection and infiltrate“ all levels of the state down to its „capillaries“.

Cloaking this sinister and heinous agenda, Gulen has formed a broad network of schools, NGOs and businesses, and covertly infiltrated into public offices to overthrow the democratically elected government in Turkey.

Gulen, who has already been sought by Turkish officials to stand trial on several counts of conspiracy, resides in southern Pennsylvania, USA.

The US has not yet extradited him to Turkey to stand trial, and continues to renew his residency permit.