Head of the powerful intelligence Committee of the United States Congress, Devin Nunes has ruled out the possibility of extraditing a US based Turkey Islamic Religious scholar, Sheikh Fethullah Gulen over the July 15, 2016 botched military coup in Turkey.
This was even as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament also debunked accusation by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish government that Sheikh Gulen had anything to do with the coup attempt.
Devin Nunes, who is a member of the Republican Party and close ally of President Donald Trump said: “I haven’t seen evidence that Gulen was involved in the failed coup.”
The Republican lawmaker accused President Edorgan government of being authoritarian.
“Our relationship with Turkey is strained and going to become even more complicated as we begin to try to get ISIS out of Iraq and Syria.”
Devin Nunes accused President Edorgan of being the architect of the attempted coup.
In a statement also, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament said: “given the brutality of the events of 15 July, the severity of the charges made against the Gulenists, and the scale of the purges of perceived Gulenists that has been justified on this basis, there is a relative lack of hard, publicly-available evidence to prove that the Gulenists as an organization were responsible for the coup attempt in Turkey.
“While there is evidence to indicate that some individual Gulenists were involved, it is mostly anecdotal or circumstantial, sometimes premised on information from confessions or informants, and is – so far – inconclusive in relation to the organization as a whole or its leadership.” [myad]
