Gulen in his new video message likened his followers to brain cells, stating that the brain had more than 10 billion cells, he said all of them awaited an order, a direction, Daily Sabah reported.
"God did not put them there for no reason, if there are that many soldiers already there, you can conquer many things," he said, pointing out a possible infiltration in the army.
Underlining that his soldiers were on stand-by, he added: "But I think they are asleep. Because they were not given duties or didn't face any difficulties."
Comment: Without the full speech giving more context, it seems to be a stretch to equate 'brain cells' as his soldiers and 'sleeper cells' on standby.
While Gulen denies involvement in the July 15 coup attempt, On July 22, he had called the millions of people that gathered all across Turkey to protest the failed coup attempt as 'fools'.
The Turkish government has accused thousands of former civil servants, now suspended or jailed, of being behind the July 15 coup attempt, when over 240 people were killed and over two thousand were injured.
Gülen is among Turkey's most wanted, with the country exerting a tremendous effort to obtain an international arrest warrant for him. He lives in a compound owned by his movement in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.
Ankara is seeking to secure his extradition from the US and has officially submitted the documents for extradition earlier this week.
And where best to hide them than in Erdo's party itself? When will Erdo attack his own party? Is he ready for that type of cleansing?