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Ankara – Turkey expects the U.S. to rethink its position on Fetullah Gulen after witnessing the participation of millions of people at pro-democracy rallies, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said in Ankara on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking at a press conference in the parliament following a Cabinet meeting, Kurtulmus said: \u201cI think the U.S. officials will now hesitate in hiding, providing protection and guarding Gulen there [in the U.S.] after witnessing this rally.<\/p>\n “We have no doubt the U.S. administrators will revise their position on this person in Pennsylvania after [Turkish] people clearly revealed their views [about Gulen] at rallies [across Turkey]\u2026According to security figures, around 25 million people attended the ‘democracy watch’ rallies across the country so far.”<\/p>\n Turkish government has accused the U.S.-based preacher of being the mastermind of the July 15 coup bid that left 240 martyred and nearly 2,200 injured. <\/p>\n Gulen is being sought by an Istanbul court to face charges, and Turkey has made an official request to Washington for his extradition.<\/p>\n Upon a question that some members of the military allegedly linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) fled to the PKK\u2019s base in northern Iraq, Kurtulmus said a total of 216 fugitive military personnel including, 9 generals and 30 gendarme officers were still at large.<\/p>\n Without providing information about the fugitives’ whereabouts, Kurtulmus said \u201cspeculations on where they are hiding are not confirmed by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition, he said ten foreigners are accused of having links to the FETO organization. “Four of them were remanded into custody,” said the deputy prime minister. <\/p>\n To alleviate the concerns on the future of Turkey\u2019s economy over the coup bid, Kurtulmus said a bill to ensure businessmen\u2019s movable property is underway. <\/p>\n \u201cTurkey economy was not affected by [the] coup bid and [its] aftermath,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n The deputy premier also said the ban on annual leaves of public employees declared amid the three-month state of emergency in the country had been now lifted.<\/p>\n Turkey’s government has repeatedly said the coup attempt was organized by followers of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania since 1999, and the FETO terror group. <\/p>\n Gulen is accused of leading a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary, forming what is commonly known as the parallel state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ankara – Turkey expects the U.S. to rethink its position on Fetullah Gulen after witnessing the participation of millions of people at pro-democracy rallies, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said in Ankara on Monday. Speaking at a press conference in the parliament following a Cabinet meeting, Kurtulmus said: \u201cI think the U.S. officials will now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[468,461,344,70,292],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-feto","tag-gulen","tag-numan-kurtulmus","tag-turkey","tag-usa"],"views":662,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}