An elderly Turkish imam who has been living in exile in the Poconos and was blamed for Friday’s botched coup says Turkey’s president plotted the overthrow himself as a political ploy.

Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, 75, spoke to reporters Sunday through an interpreter at his home in Saylorsburg, Pa.

He made the allegation against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Erdogan fingered him as the mastermind behind the attempted military overthrow of Edrogan’s regime.(nypost.com)…[+]