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Trump working on extraditing Gulen: Turkish foreign minister

Trump working on extraditing Gulen: Turkish foreign minister

Fethullah Gulen

US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, that Washington was working on extraditing a US-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday.

"In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing Gulen and other people," Cavusoglu said at a conference in Doha, referring to the G20 summit in Argentina from November 30 to December 1.