Turkey issues arrest warrant for US-based cleric
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
(5,737 posts)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
(14,591 posts)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.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)har·bor
ˈhärbər/
verb
gerund or present participle: harboring
2.
give a home or shelter to.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)If Erdogan tried something like that.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)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
(68,868 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)The coup leaders testified to his involvement.
Are you claiming the coup leaders are also Erdogan's trained dogs?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)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
(14,591 posts)The evidence is based upon coup leader's testimony and confessions.
cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)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
(59,519 posts)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
(21,328 posts)A confession doesn't mean much if it was arrived at via torture.
Eugene
(62,008 posts)Source: Reuters
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
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