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2019-01-03 The Grand Turk
US officials to visit Turkey over Gulen extradition request
[Al Jazeera] A team of US officials is due to arrive in Ankara on Thursday for a visit that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
hopes will pave the way for the extradition of Fethullah Gülen
... 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...
, a former imam it accuses of orchestrating a coup attempt.

Turkey says Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, criminal masterminded the 2016 attempted coup that led to the deaths of more than 250 people.

Prior to the failed putsch, Gulen's movement placed supporters within the Ottoman Turkish state apparatus, particularly the judiciary and police, from where it attacked its opponents, including a 2013 corruption investigation that targeted figures close to then-Prime Minister Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
After the attempted coup, the purge of alleged Gulenists
... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag...
was stepped up, resulting in tens of thousands of people being dismissed from their posts and incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
Gulen, who was previously allied to Erdogan, denies involvement in the takeover attempt.

The two-day visit will see the US delegation meet counterparts from Turkey's justice, interior and foreign ministries to discuss the Ottoman Turkish case against Gulen, according to Ottoman Turkish officials.
Posted by Fred 2019-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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