Ankara Says Receiving ’Positive Signals’ from US on Gulen Extradition

Almasdarnews (and many others) ^ | Aug 13, 2016

[mvonfr]

Turkey said Friday it has received “positive signals” from the United States over its requests to extradite Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara accuses of ordering last month’s attempted coup.....

[mvonfr]

My thoughts : Obama is in the situation where he cannot say YES or NO to the request. Saying YES shows major weakness to be used in the election campaign against the democrats; Saying NO means provoking the Turks into the next step which may be dropping out of NATO, taking over the US base, or a variation of a "student" action a la the Iranians in 1980.. again, this is not helpful at all in the campaign.

So Obama has to play for time, send "positive signals", pretend to work out formalities, and hope that the matter will get delayed till after the elections... not at all obvious that Erdogan will like being stalled.

One question to FR: the entire matter of extradition of a political figure: was there *ANY* precedent in the US history?

[dfwgator]

Obama is Erdogan’s little bitch.

[dfwgator]

F the Turks, we’d be better off with them out of NATO.

[mvonfr]

F the Turks, we’d be better off with them out of NATO

And Bless the Turks if they do to Hillary what the Mullahs did to Carter. :P

[Paladin2]

I say we send Hussein.

[FreedomPoster]

The nukes should have been removed 10 years ago. Heck, the entire U.S. presence.

Another Bush failure.

[Gen.Blather]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_extradited_from_the_United_States

[dfwgator]

And Bless the Turks if they do to Hillary what the Mullahs did to Carter. :P

And there will me more than one person to suggest that Trump was in cahoots with the Turks if something like that happens.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I’ll give you a positive signal, boys.

[butlerweave]

They’ll have to wait until Obama is finished his vacation

[mvonfr]

Thanks a lot! — this is what I wanted!

[Texas Fossil]

Gulen? Very bad precedent to turn over to Erdogan, the Islamist.

But most important matter is the Southern Base in Turkey and the 50-90+ H bombs stored there.

[butlerweave]

and if Obama sends him back he’ll have the Blood of 10’s of thousands on his hands

[magua]

Maybe the Penn State Republicans can hand him over.

[PIF]

Removal 40 years ago would have been just dandy

[beethovenfan]

Nancy-boy caves again.

[Does so]

He already does. Gulen is no friend of ours. Maybe Ergogan will take Gulen, his family, and all the members of Gulen’s mosque as well?

[dfwgator]

Gulen is no friend of ours.

Neither is Erdogan.

[mvonfr]

While I have no problem with turning over Gulen or Hussein or both (and they can have Hillary too)....

I really do not think this is possible.. looking through the Wiki extradition list shows nothing like this ever done.

[FreedomPoster]

If you’re going back that far in time, let’s make it 55 years, and we might not have had a Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets put IRBMs in Cuba in response to IRBMs in Turkey.