Turkey Says Trump Working On Extraditing Wanted Cleric Gulen
- 5 years ago
According to Reuters, U.S. President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Washington is working on extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016. Turkey has long sought the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed U.S. exile for nearly two decades. Trump said last month he was not considering extraditing the preacher as part of efforts to ease Turkish pressure on Saudi Arabia.