It was the first political assassination in Tunisia since the popular unrest in 2011 forced the country's autocraticleader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from power and also inspired the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings across the region.
More to the point, Gulen is the reclusive and highly autocraticleader of a global media, business, "interfaith dialogue" and education empire said to be worth many billions and that is run from a compound in the Poconos.