Turkey’s president is calling on the U.S. to extradite a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania who he says is behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey. The cleric Fethullah Gulen lives in exile at this retreat in the Pocono mountains. Gulen condemned the attempted military coup in turkey and sharply rejected any responsibility for the attempted coup.
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