U.S. Will Work With Turkey On Extraditing Preacher GulenBiden

U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, said that U.S. is teaming up with a Turkish team to prepare a formal extradition request for Fethullah Gulen, the preacher Ankara blames for plotting the July 15 coup attempt.Biden stressed on Wednesday during his visit to Turkey that only a court can extradite the Turkish born Islamic cleric, based on evidence.We have no interest whatsoever in protecting anyone who has done harm to an ally, but we need to meet the legal standard requirement under our law.Gulen, a Turkish Islamic cleric who lives in the United States since 1999, denies the charges.He was a long-time ally of the current Turkish government but they have fallen out in recent years.The vice president said available information showed that so far Turkey has not supplied any evidence that Gulen was involved in the coup.He said that only filed documents on alleged crimes unrelated to the failed putsch.Biden staunchly and repeatedly condemned the coup and also insisted that the U.S. had no hand in plotting it, rebuffing conspiracy theories making the rounds in Turkey. (dpa/NAN)
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