Joe Newby "On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden essentially apologized to Turkey for President Obama’s inability to unilaterally extradite a man the Turkish government blames for the recent coup. He did, however, promise that the regime would do all it can to cooperate with the Turkish government.
"Biden claimed that the rule of law is a foundational principle of both Turkish and American societies.
“Gulen, Mr. Prime Minister, I understand the intense feeling your government and the people of Turkey have about him. We are cooperating. We are cooperating with Turkish authorities. Our legal experts are working right now with their Turkish counterparts on the production of and the evaluation of material and evidence that needs to be supplied to an American court to meet the requirements under our law in the Extradition Treaty to extradite Gulen. And we’re going to continue to do so as you continue to bring forward additional information. We have no, no, no, no interest whatsoever in protecting anyone who has done harm to an ally. None. But we need to meet the legal standard requirement under our law.”
"He wasn’t finished bowing and scraping." . . .
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