{"id":25766,"date":"2018-12-16T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25766"},"modified":"2018-12-16T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:22:29","slug":"turkey-says-trump-working-on-extraditing-wanted-preacher-gulen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25766","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says Trump working on extraditing wanted preacher Gulen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.1473429952\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/spotlight\/turkeyelection\/2011\/05\/2011526121054590355.html\">Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> that Washington is working on extraditing a US-based Muslim preacher accused of orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016, Turkey&#8217;s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing (Fethullah) Gulen and other people,&#8221; Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday, referring to the G20 summit where the leaders met two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a> has long sought the extradition of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> for nearly two decades. A former ally of Erdogan, he is blamed by Turkish authorities for the failed coup when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and helicopters, attacked parliament and shot unarmed civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Gulen denies any involvement in the failed coup.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said last month he was not considering extraditing the preacher as part of efforts to ease Turkish pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Saudi journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/profile-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-writer-missing-turkey-181007184026645.html\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said last week Turkey would start new initiatives abroad to target the financing of Gulen supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have recently seen a credible probe by the FBI on how the Gulen organisation avoids taxes,&#8221; Cavusoglu told a conference in Doha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan that Washington is working on extraditing a US-based Muslim preacher accused of orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016, Turkey&#8217;s foreign minister has said. &#8220;In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing (Fethullah) Gulen and other people,&#8221; Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday, referring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}