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Turkey formally asks US to extradite Gulen
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US State Department said on Friday that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has formally requested the extradition of US-based Turkish holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... but not on issues related to the recent coup attempt, which Turkish leaders have accused him of inspiring. "We can confirm now that Turkey has requested the extradition of Gulen," State Department front man Mark Toner told a briefing. US officials earlier said they were reviewing documents submitted by Turkey but were not able to say they constituted an extradition request. Toner told news hounds the formal extradition request from Turkey was not related to the attempted coup earlier this year but was for other issues for which Gulen was being sought by authorities in Ankara. 586 colonels retired by Turkey’s supreme military council [Hurriyet] A total of 586 colonels have been retired from the army according to decisions taken at a meeting of Turkey’s Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) on Aug. 23, which convened for the second time in less than a month after the failed coup attempt of July 15.
The YAŞ also witnessed a new composition, with Turkey’s defense, foreign, interior, justice and deputy prime ministers participating in the meeting for the first time under the leadership of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, according to a decree law to increase the civilian authority to avoid future coup attempts. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-24 |
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