The President also praised Nazarbayev for being the first foreign president, who visited Turkey and showed solidarity following the foiled coup.
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The US Justice Department is the main agency poring over the documents to see whether they amount to a formal extradition request for Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.
People walk on the “Galata” bridge past giant Turkey flags, in Istanbul, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016.
Lawyers for US -based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen said on Friday they feared attacks on his life following Turkey’s demands that he be extradited to face allegations that he ordered a failed coup against the government last month.
The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that US government officials have not been persuaded by Turkish authorities that Gulen was responsible for the violent overthrow attempt on July 15 that left hundreds dead and rocked a key North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally.
State-run Anadolu Agency says the warrant, issued in Istanbul, accuses Fethullah Gulen of “ordering the 15 July coup attempt” which resulted in the deaths of more than 270 people. It also called on local branches to avoid “agitation and gossip” during the purges. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
Turkey has cracked down heavily in the wake of the coup attempt.
A Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for a cleric living in Pennsylvania, accusing him of being behind a failed coup attempt last month.
One of the lawyers, Reid Weingarten, said: “It would be unprecedented and appalling if the United States took a frail almost-octogenarian, plopped him on a plane to go back into that kind of setting with the ugly things that are being said about him by the entire Turkish government”.
Since the coup attempt, almost 70,000 people suspected of links to Gulen have been suspended or dismissed from jobs in the civil service, judiciary, education, health care and the military. “In Africa, we know that they work as nurseries (for terror) and we want to warn them”.
Meanwhile, police in Ankara detained a comedian for questioning over his possible ties to the Gulen movement, Anadolu reported.
Ankara s crackdown on the Gulen movement has also targeted journalists accused of links to the preacher.
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Separately, Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported a German woman had been arrested in Turkey on suspicion of belonging to the Gulen movement. It didn’t specify when or where she was arrested.
