President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Source: TOI
Turkey has repeatedly pressed Washington to extradite the 75-year-old cleric to face trial over the attempted putsch, which saw a rogue military faction try to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Gulen strongly denies Ankara’s accusations and his lawyer on Friday said Turkey had failed to provide “a scintilla” of proof to support its claim. Bozdag asked rhetorically how Washington would react if a person responsible for violence in the US was being hosted by Turkey. “What if there was an attempted assassination of (President Barack) Obama while he was on holiday with his wife and children, if the White House was bombed, if tanks were driven over people, if soldiers shot at people from helicopters and the terrorist head responsible for all this was in Turkey?”
The coup attempt took place while Erdogan was on a family holiday in southern Turkey and saw both the parliament and the area around the presidential palace bombed from the air.
Bozdag said that if the US did not extradite Gulen, relations between the two would be negatively affected despite being “two friendly countries” at present.
The minister added that anti-US sentiment had reached its peak in Turkey over the Gulen issue and urged Washington to act before it turned to hatred.
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President of Turkey is not afraid of any one. In fact the initial plan formulated by US backfired. According to it, he was to be installed as head of mini Ottoman Empire comprising of Turkey and area captured by ISIS. Russia and Iran played more intelligently and snatched the chance from USA. Now Turk has weighed the available options and he finds comfortable with Russia. Simple is that. Coming US elections will now decide either to have new approach under Trump or to continue the old game under Clinton. So please wait until November.
As long as Turkey’s leaders still oppress the religious minorities, there is no peace, and then Turkey’s people will pay the high price for ignoring Human Right or Allah’s law. killing innocent children and women will continue forever with suicide bomb.
Human Right is the man key to achieve the permanent peace on earth