Giuliani reportedly urged Trump to expel Turkish cleric Erdogan wants back in Turkey
Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged President Donald Trump in 2017 to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, to Turkey — a move that would have fulfilled a top priority of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Trump — who recently pulled U.S. troops from northern Syria, opening the door for Erdogan to launch an offensive there — has reportedly sought ways to extradite Gulen from the U.S. in an effort to appease Ankara. NBC News reported last November that officials in the Trump administration had asked federal law enforcement agencies to look into legal ways to expel the cleric, an effort to assuage Turkey over the Saudi killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil.
It’s unclear why Giuliani — who has also come under scrutiny in recent weeks for his role in persuading Ukraine to dig up dirt on 2020 presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden ― was so fixated on the Gulen issue. Story continuesGiuliani, who joined the president’s legal team in 2018, isn’t the first Trump ally to push for Gulen’s extradition. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, lobbied on behalf of Turkey while working for the Trump campaign in 2016. That effort included writing an op-ed in The Hill on Election Day in which he lambasted Gulen as a “shady,” “radical Islamist.”
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