Turkey's state Presidency of Religious Affairs (DİB) released a detailed report Wednesday on how Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) leader Fetullah Gülen has exploited Islam with cult-like methods and claiming in conversations with his followers that he meets with Prophet Muhammad and receives messages from God.

Providing information on the report at a ceremony in Ankara, DİB head Mehmet Görmez said DİB has put forward work that reveals FETÖ's main agenda and mentality.

Stressing that Gülen deceived his followers by using God, Görmez said: "He said God appeared. Most unfortunately, he made these remarks in a mosque. Such words are important in proving his degree of heresy."

Görmez said religious experts listened to 670 hours of Gülen's speeches and read 80 of his books, magazines and newspaper articles. The report stands out as the most intensive analysis of FETÖ's mentality and methods.

In one of his speeches, Gülen told his followers that Muhammad was in the western Turkish province of İzmir wandering around. "Maybe 100 times, [Prophet Muhammad] was heard saying 'I am going to İzmir. I will observe the atmosphere there.' The Pride of the Universe [referring to the prophet] was heard saying 'I am needed in Anatolia. I went on a trip,' " Gülen said on July 9, 1979, at the İzmir Hisar Mosque.

According to the report, makes up stories. In a sermon at İzmir's Hisar Mosque 10 years later, Gülen said Muhammad was among those who were listening to him, and God himself was at the mosque's lectern. "That mosque is such a mosque that God, who sees, hears and knows everything, is at its lectern. And if there is anyone wandering through the lines … he is the sultan of our hearts Prophet Muhammad Mustafa," Gülen said.

Again at the Hisar Mosque in 1990, Gülen told his followers as he burst into tears that God had previously addressed him, claiming that he was one of the most precious followers of God.

In addition to receiving praise from God and claiming that Mohammad traveled to İzmir, Gülen apparently spoke in the name of God. In a speech on Oct. 20, 1978, he said that out of the 600,000 people who went on pilgrimage that year, only the pilgrimages of six of them was deemed holy in the eyes of God.

"I went on the pilgrimage this year. Two people with green clothes descended from the sky as I was sleeping near Arafat [Mount Arafat east of Mecca]. I was all ears. One of them told the other: 'How many people came on the pilgrimage this year?' The other one responded: 'Six-hundred-thousand people.' The same person asked: 'How many of these people's service were deemed holy [in the eyes of God]? He said: 'God accepted only the pilgrimage service of six of them.' "

Görmez said Gülen plays with the verses of the Quran to manipulate his followers. "Gülen does not shy away from making a verse his own tool without any principles by entirely decontextualizing it," he added.

FETÖ, which operates around the world through a large network of schools, institutions and unions, is recognized as a terrorist group in Turkey. The government blames it for the July 15, 2016 coup attempt in the country that killed 249 people and wounded more than 2,000. The government says that Gülen masterminded the coup attempt.

In the 1970s, FETÖ emerged as a religious group and then a peaceful movement that advocated interfaith dialogue and worldwide education for the poor and needy. However, FETÖ's decades-long attempts to infiltrate the police, judiciary, military and other state institutions returned in last year's coup attempt. The DİB report says that Gülen's followers have been turned into robotic militants who do not question his leadership or orders.