Trump working on extraditing Erdogan foe Gulen, Turkish foreign minister claims

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News



NBC News reported last month that the White House was looking for ways to remove Gulen from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Dec. 16, 2018 / 6:37 AM EST / Updated 7:09 AM EST

By Max Burman and Reuters

President Donald Trump is working on extraditing exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, a longtime target of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's foreign minister claimed on Sunday.

"In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing Gulen and other people," Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday at a conference in Doha, referring to the G20 summit where the leaders met two weeks ago.

NBC News reported last month that the White House was looking for ways to remove Gulen from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to two senior U.S. officials and two other people briefed on the requests.

Trump administration officials asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of removing the exiled cleric in an attempt to persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government, the four sources said.



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[JI7]

1. Gulen should move to Canada until trump is gone

[PatSeg]

5. That's the first thing that I thought of as well

Living here under Trump has to be terrifying for him.

[watoos]

2. Of course Trump is.

Erdogan has been a thorn in Trump's side by releasing the recordings of Khashoggi's murder. The Senate has acted to get us out of Yemen and the Khashoggi murder has been one of the reasons that Republicans have turned on MBS. Trump owes Saudi Arabia so if he turns over Gulen then Erdogan may back off on the murder of Khashoggi which will make MBS happy.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Trump seems to excel at providing victims for foreign leaders to be killed.

Khashoggi wasn't enough.

Who's next after Gulen?

What's Trump going to do? Send Federal Marshalls to take Gulen into custody?

[lark]

4. He'll have it done very quietly in the middle of the night

Then claim he knows absolutely nothing about it, his administration would never do that while he laughs at the guys horrible death at the hands of Erdogan. He is a total sadist and criminal.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Write a check to Jarred and foreigners can kill anyone they want. Assassination is a mob specialty.

[Metatask]

12. The chinese billionaire working with Bannon

He fled china and they want him. I think he may be funding bannon now. Forgot his name.

[dalton99a]

6. Anything to help the poor innocent prince

[McCamy Taylor]

7. WFT? If we let Saudi kill a political enemy, then Turkey also wants to kill a political enemy?

[Firestorm49]

9. Here again, who's side is this idiot president on?

[harun]

16. Money

[duforsure]

10. Turkey bought policies from trump and jared

So either he gives him up to Turkey , or he'll be exposed for what he sold them , and for how much. trump is again compromised for his illegal dealings with foreign countries , again. Congress should step in and prevent this from happening , or face even more investigations and getting exposed helping trump, then get charged fro their actions .

[Vacation Rentals]

11. Ugh... I hate agreeing with Trump on anything

but, in this one and only instance, he is right.

The evidence is so overwhelming with Gulen's involvement you would simply have to possess unbelievable stupidity or a sense of subversion not to see it. One of the most damning pieces of evidence was a commercial broadcast in Turkey that (at the time) made zero sense. It begins with air raid sirens, then bombs and fades away to a brand new baby being born. No other words - nothing.

9 months to the exact day later, the military coup took off.

I also have zero respect for Erdogan, but I do respect democracy and as much as it kills me to admit it - he is, has been and probably will be the person elected by his country to lead. Gulen has tried to subvert his legitimate election all along the way.

Truthfully, if Trump wants to handle this in the best way possible, he will turn Gulen over to the Hague and let them examine and decide his guilt or innocence.

[BadGimp]

14. try again when you have more post history...

A member since Nov 4th... please...

[Vacation Rentals]

15. Okay, I will make sure to not have an opinion

until I hit the 6 month mark.

Happy now?

[wroberts189]

17. And get your facts straight as well....

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/25/turkey-concedes-no-evidence-linking-gulen-to-coup-sent-to-washington/

[displacedtexan]

13. Will Michael Flynn get the $15 million, even though the kidnapping failed?

Hey, Trump! The Hague called. Your cell is ready.

[Midnight Writer]

18. The kidnapping plot has become a "lost story". Never mentioned anymore.

[Julian Englis]

19. Wondering how the headline on Flynn's doings will affect this. n/t