Maintaining Ankara’s criticism of the Muslim cleric who denies any involvement in the putsch, Yildirim said on Saturday that Gulen ran an exclusive communication channel with 50,000 using it.
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A delegation from the U.S. Justice Department will be arriving on August 22 to discuss extradition.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would also visit Turkey some time in October, he said.
Washington has said it would need evidence of the cleric’s involvement, and says the regular extradition process must be allowed to take its course.
Turkey has detained 35,022 people, of whom 17,740 have been formally arrested under court orders, since the Jult 15 failed putsch.
Turkey nearly immediately increased pressure for the extradition from the United States of Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan who runs an influential network of worldwide schools outside Turkey.
Earlier this week Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey had received “positive signals” from Washington regarding the cleric’s extradition.
Yildirim also said the future of U.S.
Erdogan has said the purge is needed to wipe out what he calls the “virus” of Gulen from Turkish institutions.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that more than 76,000 people, employees, judges and members of the security force went on a work strike.(end).
“Even if the shock absorber of a auto breaks down, they say someone with [the Gulenists] has done this”.
“Even if the shock absorber of a auto breaks down, they say someone with (the Gulenists) has done this”, Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes told CNN Turk.
Sukur, 44, was once a member of parliament from Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) but resigned in protest in 2013 after a widespread corruption probe into top government officials.
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The Istanbul chief prosecutor sent a letter to US authorities asking for Gulen’s detention, CNN Turk said. Erdogan cast the allegations as an manoeuvre orchestrated by Gulen’s followers to undermine him. “This was an obvious alliance”.
