Turkey has designated his movement as a terror organization.
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The Turkish government has already sent dossiers to the United States requesting the extradition of Gulen.
It was earlier reported that the Turkish government and the oppositional Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) will hold a joint protest rally against the military coup attempt in the country.
The Turkish government has sent Washington 85 boxes of documents in connection with its demand that the United States extradite a cleric Ankara accuses of backing last months coup attempt in Turkey.
Ankara has frequently called on the U.S. to extradite Gulen, sending two sets of documents to Washington since the coup as evidence of his involvement in the putsch attempt.
In the warrant, which was issued on Thursday, Gulen stands accused of “ordering the July 15 coup”, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Kerry said on July 18 that Turkey must present “genuine evidence” and “not allegations” against Erdogan’s former ally for his extradition. The trial of Gulen and more than 70 main defendants in the case of the coup attempt is scheduled for late November. “We made serious mistakes”, he said on Monday. Turkey is also pressing its allies to crack down on Gulen-linked schools and charities and was expected to ask the Kazakh leader to shut down Gulen-run establishments in his Central Asian nation.
A court in Istanbul has issued an arrest warrant for US-based Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen.
Gulen had another arrest warrant issued against him on 20 October 2015 for his alleged role in the corruption probe of 25 December 2013.
Since the coup attempt, almost 70,000 people suspected of links to Gulen have been suspended or dismissed from the civil service, judiciary, education, health care and the military. “We’re still reviewing the materials that were submitted by the Turkish government”.
Ankara claims he masterminded the July 15 coup attempt.
Since then, more than 25,000 people have been detained of which 13,000 have been remanded in custody, while almost 75,000 passports have been cancelled. Such comments raise questions about the potential fairness of Gulen’s treatment in Turkey, they said.
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The spokesman said Jagland was for example concerned that a teacher should not be disqualified from the profession simply because they had worked at a Gulen-linked school. “This cancer is different, this virus has spread everywhere”, Erdogan said in a speech at the presidential palace to the heads of chambers of commerce and bourses.
