Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu mentioned Thursday that he “hopes” Washington will extradite members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) primarily based within the US.
Speaking at an occasion to satisfy members of the Turkish American group and Ahiska Turks in Houston, Texas, Çavuşoğlu pressured that FETO members are “intensely” current within the metropolis.
Stating that FETO’s academic establishments have been shut down in lots of international locations and their members have been handed over to Türkiye, Çavuşoğlu mentioned: “I hope the United States will also extradite” them.
The minister mentioned the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has had ongoing investigations in reference to FETO’s actions in a number of US states and added that officers with the US investigative bureau traveled to Ankara and supplied their counterparts with details about their work.
“The FBI told us that they saw the dark side of the FETO terrorist organization and that they resorted to all kinds of methods, including human smuggling, irregularities in visas, money laundering,” mentioned Çavuşoğlu.
“I hope the entire US will see what FETO is at the end of these investigations,” he added.
FETO orchestrated the July 15, 2016 defeated coup in Türkiye during which 251 folks have been killed and a pair of,734 injured.
Ankara accuses FETO of being behind a long-running marketing campaign to overthrow the state via the infiltration of Turkish establishments, significantly the army, police and judiciary.
