Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and US President Barack Obama (right) at a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou.
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A self-exiled former imam living in the eastern state of Pennsylvania, Gulen strongly denies any involvement with the bid to overthrow Erdogan.
He said that the files will be given to the USA delegation responsible for Gulen’s extradition, and that a delegation from the Turkish Justice Ministry will also visit the United States to work on the matter.
Gulen has lived in exile in Pennsylvania since the 1990s, prompting speculation from Turkish authorities that the USA used Gulen as a puppet to instigate the uprising to unseat Erdogan.
Dutch police in the port city of Rotterdam say they have arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of intimidation and vandalism in the aftermath of last month’s failed coup in Turkey.
The two leaders held a 45-minute long closed-door meeting with their delegations and held a brief press conference following the meeting, marking the first time they met face-to-face since the July 15 failed coup attempt.
US-Turkey tensions have also been strained by Turkey’s bombing of Kurdish positions in northern Syria.
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Turkey is now carrying out a military operation to clean its borders from terrorist organizations, including Daesh and the YPG and underlines there is no difference between various terrorist organizations and that all of them must be fought with determination.
