Trump Told Erdogan That Work On Gulen's Extradition Ongoing - Turkish Foreign Minister

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th December, 2018) US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires that the United States was working on the extradition to Turkey of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating the 2016 attempted coup, the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday.

The summit was held in the Argentine capital between November 30 and December 1.

"The perpetrator of the attempted coup, the leader of this terrorist organization [FETO], is still in the United States .

.. Last time when we [the Turkish and US sides] met in Buenos Aires, President Trump told Erdogan that they [the United States] have been working on that [the extradition] but we need to see concrete steps," Mevlut Cavusoglu said at the Doha Forum, when asked about Gulen's extradition.

Ankara has been accusing Gulen and his followers of playing a key role in the military takeover attempt, which the cleric, who has been residing in the United States, has refuted.