The upcoming U.S. presidential election and subsequent administration change in Washington will not affect the process to extradite Fetullah Terrorist Organization’s (FETO) leader Fetullah Gulen to Turkey, that country’s justice minister said Thursday.
Speaking here at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) think-tank, Bekir Bozdag said Turkey would continue to work on the process with the newly elected U.S. president, regardless of who is elected.
Turkey alleges that Gulen is the mastermind behind the failed bloody July 15 coup attempt in which least 241 people were martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Gulen has led a long-running campaign to overthrow the Turkish government through the infiltration of state institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary, forming what is commonly known as the parallel state.
Bozdag’s remarks came in response to an American woman who introduced herself as an “old friend of Turkey” from the audience and asked whether the extradition process would be negatively affected should Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton win the election.