The U.S. Attorneys’ Manual says after the State Department receives the requests, the Justice Department evaluates them.
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The incursion was slammed by Syria’s government, which described it is a blatant violation of Syrian sovereignty and demanded an end to what it said was “aggression” being carried out under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
“Turkey will be defeated like Daesh in Syrian quagmire”, Moslem tweeted.
Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have repeatedly called on the U.S.to swiftly extradite Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania in self-imposed exile.
After meeting Biden, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey and the United States should never allow incidents to harm relations, but Ankara expected the legal process for the Gulen extradition without delay.
It won’t exactly help to smooth things over with the United States that Turkey has begun shelling USA -supported Kurdish forces in Syria.
Former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, said the key to US ties with Turkey was balancing realist and idealist tensions, between the need for a strong, regional NATO ally and drawing attention to human rights.
The operation comes days after a suspected IS bombing at a wedding in southeast Turkey killed at least 54 people.
According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, General Gerasimov and his accompanying delegation are scheduled to meet Akar at 11 a.m. local time [0800GMT].
“This is devastating. Can you imagine if this happened at home?”
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made a “formal” threat to the Kurds, increasing the tone a notch higher.
Sharwan Darwish, a spokesperson for the SDF-affiliated Manbij Military Council, said there were no direct confrontations, only warning shots.
The US promised that once these areas are cleared of ISIL, YPG units would go back to the east of the Euphrates. Turkish authorities fired more than 2,800 judges and prosecutors on Wednesday, in the latest purge related to the coup, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. “There are a lot of things going on right now in our relationship and neither one of us can afford to have that relationship be too strained at the moment”.
Another influential Kurdish politician, Aldar Xelil, took a tougher stance against the Turkish intervention, telling Reuters it was a “declaration of war” on the autonomous administration of northern Syria. Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey shares borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria, where the porous border permits Islamic State fighters into Turkey and would-be recruits into Syria.
He also added: “You will not silence our calls to prayer, you will not make this country kneel, you will not chain this people”.
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Biden told reporters Syria must be whole and united, and not carved into pieces.
