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I wonder if Erdogan knows that when Trump says he's "working on it"
that he may as well have said "the check's in the mail"?
Not to say that his administration *isn't* actually trying to get Gulen extradicted to Turkey (I have no idea nor even speculation), but chances are good that, as usual, Trump had no idea what he was talking about.
Are there really people in the world outside the U.S. who don't know that Trump lies incessantly about everything?
From the NYT:
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday that the United States was “working on” extraditing Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim religious leader who is wanted in Turkey on charges that he instigated a failed coup there two years ago.
The presence of Mr. Gulen in the United States — he has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the 1990s — is one of the major points of contention in the uneasy relations between the two NATO allies.
But Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that President Trump had told President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting at the recent Group of 20 summit meeting in Buenos Aires that his administration was “working on” the extradition request. Mr. Cavusoglu made the comments Sunday at a conference in Doha, Qatar.
“Last time we met in Buenos Aires, President Trump told President Erdogan that they have been working on that,” he said, “but we need to see concrete steps because it has been already two years, almost three years.”
The presence of Mr. Gulen in the United States — he has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the 1990s — is one of the major points of contention in the uneasy relations between the two NATO allies.
But Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that President Trump had told President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting at the recent Group of 20 summit meeting in Buenos Aires that his administration was “working on” the extradition request. Mr. Cavusoglu made the comments Sunday at a conference in Doha, Qatar.
“Last time we met in Buenos Aires, President Trump told President Erdogan that they have been working on that,” he said, “but we need to see concrete steps because it has been already two years, almost three years.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/europe/fethullah-gulen-turkey-extradite.html
