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Ankara keen on cooperating with Washington to extradite Gulen

ANKARA, July 22. /TASS/. Turkey is ready to collaborate with a panel which the United States has proposed on the possible extradition of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen suspected to be the mastermind of last week’s coup attempt, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.

"Gulen must be extradited to Turkey and should not be able to flee to another country. We are ready to cooperate with the extradition commission, proposed by the United States, Gulen’s extradition process should not be drawn out over years, it can be solved within a short period of time," he said.