A woman walks with a child at Taksim square in Istanbul, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016.
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Turkey previously issued an arrest warrant for Gulen in December 2014 on charges of setting up and directing an “armed terrorist organisation” as well as using intimidation to deprive a person of their freedom.
Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern on Wednesday said the membership talks were “no more than fiction”.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will make a visit to Turkey before the end of August, the first such visit since the coup attempt and one observers believe will involve much discussion on Gulen’s ties to the coup attempt as well as extradition requests.
“We subsequently received more documents”.
An Istanbul court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Gulen, accusing him of ordering the coup aimed at ousting Erdogan.
The refugee deal, signed in March 2016, promises visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the Schengen Area in return for Turkey’s agreement to increase border control measures and to take back asylum seekers.
Turkey tapped APCO to communicate with media and other organizations to boost the countries’ relationship.
He has denied any involvement in the coup attempt in Turkey.
The US has said it will only turn over Gulen if Turkey provides direct evidence linking the 75-year-old cleric to last month’s failed coup attempt that left at least 230 people dead.
Eker said the cleric’s movement had hundreds of schools, charities or other establishments in more than 100 countries and warned they too could face “security risks” from the group in the future.
It said that the coup attempt was the action of the organization and was carried out by its founder suspect Fethullah Gulen.
At the same event, he also said it was imperative for the country to remain vigilant and chase down Gulen followers.
“We will cut off all their business links, all the revenues of Gulen-linked businesses”, he warned, vowing to cleanse the state from the Gulen “virus”. Gulen has denied involvement.
Austria’s chancellor says there are signs that Turkey is heading toward a dictatorship and questions the sense of continuing negotiations with it over European Union membership.
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But Turkey is still for Washington an “essential partner in the Middle East” and will do all it can to satisfy Ankara “even if they are not going to cede on Gulen”, said Jean Marcou, Turkey expert at Sciences Po in Grenoble.
