Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday morning congratulated Donald Trump on his winning the U.S. presidency.
At a ceremony marking the opening of the school year at the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy in the capital Ankara, Yildirim said: "We congratulate Mr. Trump and wish him success".
He added, "I make a clarion call for the new president to extradite Fetullah Gulen, who lives in U.S. territory, as soon as possible."
Gulen is the leader of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), blamed for the July 15 coup plot in Turkey as well as being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
Gulen currently lives in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, and Ankara has called on U.S. authorities to extradite him as soon as possible, and arrest him until his extradition has been processed.