Turkey sends request to US for extradition of Gulen

Turkey's Justice Ministry sent a dossier to the United States after repeated calls by the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the extradition of Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom he blames for a failed coup attempt, the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.

Speaking to members of his party in parliament, Yildirim did not say whether the dossier amounted to an official extradition request for Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the late 1990s, Reuters reports.