Turkey to end extraditions to US unless cleric is turned over, Erdogan says
[Ynet]
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
will not extradite any suspects to the United States if Washington does not hand over the holy man Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
Ankara accuses US-based
... 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...
of criminal masterminding the putsch and has repeatedly asked Washington for his extradition.
US officials have said courts require sufficient evidence to extradite the elderly holy man who has denied any involvement in the coup.
"We have given the United States 12 turbans so far, but they have not given us back the one we want. They made up excuses from thin air," Erdogan told local administrators at a conference in his presidential palace in Ankara.
"If you're not giving him (Gulen) to us, then excuse us, but from now on whenever you ask us for another terrorist, as long as I am in office, you will not get them," he said.
Turkey summons U.S. charge d'affaires over Syria: Turkish sources
[AlAhram]
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Wednesday summoned a top U.S. diplomat in Ankara to protest Washington's support of a Kurdish militia in Syria, sources in the
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
allies.
The
Turkey and the United States have been at loggerheads over Washington's policy of support for the YPG, which Ankara views as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast for more than three decades.
The YPG is the main element in a force that Washington has assisted with training, weapons, air support and help from ground advisers in the battle against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Last month the YPG militia said it had fully captured Deir al-Zor's eastern countryside from Islamic State with the help of both the U.S.-led coalition and Russia.