{"id":3560,"date":"2016-07-16T21:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2016-07-16T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:37:38","slug":"erdogan-urges-us-to-extradite-fetullah-gulen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/erdogan-urges-us-to-extradite-fetullah-gulen\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan urges US to extradite Fetullah Gulen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Istanbul – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the United States on Saturday to extradite accused terrorist leader and coup plotter Fetullah Gulen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Addressing a crowd in Istanbul less than 24 hours after his call for the public to take the streets helped end a coup, Erdogan said Turkey had asked the U.S. many times to extradite Pennsylvania-based preacher Gulen, an expatriate Turk. “I had told you [the U.S.] to deport or give this person back to Turkey.”<\/p>\n

“I had told you that this person was in a preparation for a coup against Turkey, but I could not make you listen to me,” Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

Reiterating his demand, Erdogan said, “I repeat my call on the U.S. and president [Barack Obama], give this person back to Turkey.”<\/p>\n

Erdogan also emphasized that Friday\u2019s failed coup had not come from within the higher echelons of the army but instead “a small minority within the military.”<\/p>\n

“They [Gulen supporters] were like a tumor within the military, and now this tumor is being removed,” he added.<\/p>\n

Friday night saw military elements make a \u201cvile\u201d attempt to overthrow Turkey\u2019s elected government, according to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Around 160 people were martyred in the ensuing violence.<\/p>\n

Some 2,839 military personnel involved in the coup attempt have been arrested, and 20 pro-coup soldiers, including some senior officers, were killed in the attempt to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n

Turkey accuses Fetullah Gulen of being behind the coup and called for him to return to Turkey to face trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Istanbul – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the United States on Saturday to extradite accused terrorist leader and coup plotter Fetullah Gulen. Addressing a crowd in Istanbul less than 24 hours after his call for the public to take the streets helped end a coup, Erdogan said Turkey had asked the U.S. many times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[461,201],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-gulen","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"views":595,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}