What Fethullah Gülen left in Ghana, and who inherits it in West Africa
Following the death of Fethullah Gülen, the status of his movement's schools and infrastructure in Ghana remains a point of contention. The Turkish government continues to pressure Ghanaian authorities to transfer these assets to the state-run Maarif Foundation.
Fethullah G len died in a Pennsylvania hospital in October 2024, seventeen months before this piece was written, having spent a quarter of a century directing a global movement from exile without ever returning to the country of his birth. In Ghana, as across much of West Africa, the question his death leaves behind is not who succeeds him as a spiritual figure, but who now controls the schools, networks and goodwill his movement built before Ankara turned against it.
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