Turkey's in an Uproar. Here's What's Happening
This week's showdown between the Turkish president and an Islamic preacher in Pennsylvania, in two minutes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's yearlong campaign against his archnemesis, the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, culminated Tuesday in the government's seizure of control over Bank Asya, an Islamic lender founded by Gulen's supporters.
Gulen is a former ally of Erdogan. The two collaborated in the past decade to help counter Turkey's secularist military through a series of trials for alleged coup attemps. They attended the opening of Bank Asya together in 1996, when Erdogan was mayor of Istanbul.