Turkey issues arrest warrant for US-based cleric

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AP

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has issued a formal warrant for the arrest of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Anadolu Agency says the Istanbul-based court issued the warrant Thursday, accusing Gulen of "ordering the July 15 coup attempt."

The Turkish government says Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, masterminded the failed coup attempt by renegade officers in Turkey's military and wants him extradited to Turkey.

The country has designated his movement as a terror organization.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/a0730f2e5f6640bd9cc810193b0117d0

[tonyt53]

1. Turkey knows that they have to go through the correct legal process for him to be handed over.

Right now, they don't feel like they have to. There are international laws that must be followed for any warrant to be recognized internationally.

[Tempest]

3. They are following international law

And the first step is to issue a formal arrest warrant. Which they've just done.

The next step is to present it to the harboring nation, which is the U.S.

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5. "harboring?" nt

[Tempest]

8. Yes, harboring

har·bor
ˈhärbər/
verb
gerund or present participle: harboring

2.
give a home or shelter to.

[NWCorona]

2. Do they have a rendition team here in America? I wouldn't be surprised

If Erdogan tried something like that.

[Tempest]

4. They won't have to

Obama has said they will turn Gulen over if there is material evidence of his involvement.

And that evidence is coming from the coup leaders.

http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/07/23/evidence-piling-up-against-gulen-and-his-involvement-in-failed-coup-attempt

[geek tragedy]

6. Daily Sabah are Erdogan's trained dogs nt

[Tempest]

9. So what?

The coup leaders testified to his involvement.

Are you claiming the coup leaders are also Erdogan's trained dogs?

[geek tragedy]

11. His captive dogs now nt

[cstanleytech]

7. A newspapers claims of mounting evidence is not evidence though and

the Turkish government itself is going to have to have some pretty hard evidence to get the US to agree to extradite this guy.

[Tempest]

10. Did you read the article?

The evidence is based upon coup leader's testimony and confessions.

[cstanleytech]

12. Thats what the newspaper claims but if the guy wants to fight it then the

Turkish government will have to provide the evidence to the US courts and even then the US courts can decline to extradite him if the evidence is believed to have been coerced or to have been forged.

[karynnj]

13. The tortured coup leaders?

It may require more than the imprisioned, tortured men's confessions. Not to mention, the public knowledge of that would create a dilemma for Obama and the Justice Department.

This is another reason Bush condoning treason was bad. It makes our position tougher.

[Zynx]

15. I wouldn't take Erdogan's word for it.

A confession doesn't mean much if it was arrived at via torture.

[Eugene]

14. U.S. says evaluating new Turkish documents on alleged coup leader

Source: Reuters

World | Thu Aug 4, 2016 9:27pm EDT

U.S. says evaluating new Turkish documents on alleged coup leader

The United States is evaluating new documents sent by Turkey to push for the extradition of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of the country's recent failed coup, a State Department spokesman said on Thursday.

"The Turkish authorities (made) several deliveries of documents to us and we're in the process of going through those documents," spokesman Mark Toner told a daily news briefing.

Toner said the first batch "did not, we believe, constitute a formal extradition request."

He added: "We subsequently received more documents. We're looking through them ... and I don't think they've reached that determination yet."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-extradition-idUSKCN10G01B