“It has to make this choice”, he said, referring to the Gulen-led Fethullah Terrorist Organization that Ankara accused of mounting the bloody coup attempt through rogue elements within the military.
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Erdogan had said the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246 people, excluding the coup plotters, and over 2,000 people were wounded. -Turkish relations. “If the U.S. does not deliver [Gulen], they will sacrifice relations with Turkey for the sake of a terrorist”, Bozdag said.
A Turkish delegation held talks in Russia on Thursday aiming at coordination on Syria and other bilateral issues following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane a year ago.
Fethullah Gulen wrote in an article published on Friday in the French daily Le Monde that it was incumbent on Turkey to produce evidence of his guilt before his extradition from his home in the United States.
“Everything is out in the open”. Meanwhile in Turkey, Erdogan’s “clean up” following the coup continues.
“We stress the importance of Iran’s constructive role in providing a permanent solution in Syria from the beginning”, Cavusoglu said. “The public presence in the scene carried good omens and an important lesson to those who attempted the coup”.
Erdogan has since strongly demanded that the USA extradite Gülen immediately.
“From the beginning, all Nigerian officials starting from his Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, expressed their solidarity with the government and the Turkish people”.
Cavusoglu, during the news conference, added that Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry were also due to arrive in Turkey but the dates were yet to be confirmed.
The United States uses the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey to launch attacks against Islamic State militants.
“Our priority in this decree is the 265 pilots who have been dismissed”. Syria is one of the few key policy issues where Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton breaks from the Obama administration and says she will reset the U.S. Syria policy.
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However, Gülen still remains in his Pennsylvania home, and the European Union’s rebuke on the post-coup arrests did not sit well with Turkey.
