White House weighs booting Erdogan foe from U.S. to appease Turkey
Source: NBC
The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to two senior U.S. officials and two other people briefed on the requests.
Trump administration officials last month asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of removing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in an attempt to persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government, the four sources said.
The effort includes directives to the Justice Department and FBI that officials reopen Turkey's case for his extradition, as well as a request to the Homeland Security Department for information about his legal status, the four people said.
They said the White House specifically wanted details about Gulen's residency status in the U.S. Gulen has a Green Card, according to two people familiar with the matter. He has been living in Pennsylvania since the late 1990s.
Career officials at the agencies pushed back on the White House requests, the U.S. officials and people briefed on the requests said. "At first there were eye rolls, but once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious," said a senior U.S. official involved in the process.
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Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Wtf wtf
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,675 posts){Previous title, or close to it: "That's the guy who lives up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, right?"}
We might as well make it official that the country has no principles anymore.
WhatCouldGoWrongHat Retweeted
Extraditing him would be murder, plain and simple. Turkey may be better than Saudi Arabia, but that's not saying much. Via @MollyJongFast
Link to tweet
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)You know, Putin wants IQ45 to send him Michael McFaul and a few other people, and the state dept. never said NO
Fuckin hell
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Ex-Trump aide Flynn investigated over plot to kidnap Turkish dissident (headline)
Me.
(35,454 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)The United States (Donald Trump) has aligned our country with ruthless dictators. This can't be a serious request that we would entertain?
Me.
(35,454 posts)This has Kushner's bloody fingerprints all over it. And as with everything that walking disaster of son-n-law touches, this will be a PR disaster.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)As a favor to the ones who sent us the vast majority of 9/11 hijackers?
watoos
(7,142 posts)Trump has a tower in Turkey, at least his name is on the tower. Quid pro quo?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to Turkey where he will surely get murdered, he should be charges as an accessory.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)denvine
(802 posts)Unbelievable. He is willing to put a man to death so he can protect the Saudi Arabian tyrant from a dictator. Do I have this wrong?
"Trump administration officials last month asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of removing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in an attempt to persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government, the four sources said."
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)thought they could get away with this having donnie in their pocket. They may not be wrong.
DURHAM D
(32,616 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Gothmog
(145,722 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)They could start by NOT MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE IN TURKEY ...
How about KSA also appeases the USA by NOT sending 15 of 19 hijackers to slaughter 1000's of innocent Americans?
IOW, FUCK THOSE GUYS.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,506 posts)can do to their reporters. All along I've been wondering what he wanted in exchange to stop shitting on the Saudis. Now we know. And he now has "just the right" punk ass sociopath in the WH to do it for him.
atreides1
(16,100 posts)Mr. Gulen should make an official request to Canada for political asylum, and he might want to do that now!!!
Honestly does anyone really think that Whittaker, Wray and Nielsen won't toss Gulen on a plane back to Turkey???
angrychair
(8,748 posts)Mr. Gulden has been a legal resident for over 20 years. He fled Turkey because he proved that he would be killed in Turkey.
Seriously, I cannot think of ANYTHING more disturbing than even the suggestion from the WH to do this, much less doing it.
This sends the message to those here in the US, even after being here for decades, that they could be sent back on the whim of the WH for political gain.
This is very dangerous territory. There is no way this is legal. It sure as hell isnt ethical or moral.
This is the single greatest attack on immigration in US history.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,392 posts)Trump would have someone killed if he thought it would get a favourable report on Fox.