Posted on 08/11/2016 8:52:06 AM PDT by P.O.E.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to give the United States an ultimatum, demanding the extradition of a cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.
Erdogan said the US would eventually have to choose between its relationship with Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Wednesday.
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If Gulen was protected by Hillary SoS and Obama, then HE is trouble.
So what should the response be?
As a Scranton judge recently determined, the request should be dismissed as without merit.
If Turkey can make their case in accordance with the extradition treaty then fine...hand the guy over. But if they just hate him and want someone to kill then no.
How about, "NUTS!"
Obama's response will be along the lines of, "I can't hand him to you, politically. But, I don't have to specially protect him either, if you get my drift."
Our Air Force and nukes are still under siege in Turkey’s Incrik air base.
Our military, government and culture are being held hostage by Islam.
RE: “I have no idea if Gulen is a good guy or bad guy, but Erdogan is trouble.”
Iran, Turkey's Islamists and the Arabs all see themselves as the rightful head of the next Islamic Caliphate, so the interaction between the three can be extremely complicated.
Who will teamobama/clinton side with? I am thinking the one that has the most political and monetary gain. I think Gulen is in trouble. He already donated to killary.
I am really surprised he’s not dead yet...he has a lot of goods on the Clinton Foundation, that’s why they hid him in PA...
Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link
Well the only good thing Stalin ever did was putting the ice pick into Trotsky’s brain.
Trotskyites have done a lot more damage to this country.
Will Turkey threaten to leave NATO? Will Obama/Kerry fall for that threat? How good negotiators are they? (OK, ok - LOL!)
On the other hand is there anyone who trusts Turkey's legal authorities? Can the US hand over Gulen to a probable execution?
And to what extent was the US and Clinton involved in the pseudo-coup?
"Connections between Clinton and acolytes of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, could muddle the complex relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, a key NATO ally, if the former secretary of state wins the White House."
Gulen is an islamist if I recall correctly. (As is O)
O will probably reply with something presidential, like: “You’re not the boss of me!”
What ?
oh ... ok .... nevermind.
You must be a gluten for punishment.
"A former president of the Gulen-linked Turkish Cultural Center, Ozkan gave between $500,001 and $1,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation in recent months, the charity’s website shows. He also served as a national finance co-chair last year for a pro-Clinton political action committee called Ready PAC.
According to Portland State University political science professor Birol Yesilada, who has studied the Gulen movement for more than 25 years, Ozkan is the New York liaison for the 74-year-old Gulen, who has lived in the Poconos since 1999 when he went into exile after he was accused of attempting to undermine Turkey’s secular regime in order to institute an Islamic state."
And of course Erdogan is doing his utmost to dismantle the secular Turkish state.
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