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Washington wants Ankara to provide evidence before extraditing Gulen: Turkish Foreign Minister

M. M. ALAM

ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has claimed  that Washington was willing to extradite US-based businessman Fethullah Gulen if  Ankara provides evidence that he was the man behind the failed coup. 

President Obama has said that the matter of Gulen;’s extradition will be dealt with according to the laws of the country. 

Nevertheless, Gulen has rejected the charges and condemned the attempt to topple Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government.

Turkey that has abolished death penalty in 2004 (as it has been trying to get into EU)  is contemplating to reinstate the capital punishment. This will make its chances to get EU membership further bleak. 

TURKEYTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu

The Ambassador of Turkey in Pakistan Sadik Babür Girgin has  told the Media here that US has been provided the required evidence and Vice President Joe Biden has said that the America would consider that.  

 

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.