A British MP accepted tens of thousands of pounds to write a report for an arm of the group accused of orchestrating the failed Turkish military coup, before promoting its agenda during a Commons debate.

Sir Edward Garnier, the Conservative MP for Harborough, was paid £115,994 in February last year to co- research and author a document titled A Report on the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights in Turkey.

The research was commissioned by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), an Istanbul-based group set up in 1994 after a meeting between Fethullah Gulen, an Islamist cleric who lives in self-imposed exile in the US, and a group of journalists. Mr Gulen remains its honorary president.

Since the 1970s Mr Gulen has