Video - Retired Army Lt. Gen.Flynn and Turkish Min, Son in law of Erdogan Discussed Kidnapping Turkish Cleric Gulen.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, while serving as an adviser to the Trump campaign, met with top Turkish government ministers and discussed removing a Muslim cleric from the U.S. and taking him to Turkey, according to former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey, who attended, and others who were briefed on the meeting.
The discussion late last summer involved ideas about how to get Fethullah Gulen, a cleric whom Turkey has accused of orchestrating last summer’s failed military coup, to Turkey without going through the U.S. extradition legal process, according to Mr. Woolsey and those who were briefed.
The Turkish ministers were interested in open-ended thinking on the subject, and the ideas were raised hypothetically, said the people who were briefed. The ministers in attendance included the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s foreign minister, foreign-lobbying disclosure documents show.
Mr. Woolsey said the idea was “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away.” The discussion, he said, didn’t include actual tactics for removing Mr. Gulen from his U.S. home. If specific plans had been discussed, Mr. Woolsey said, he would have spoken up and questioned their legality.
It isn’t known who raised the idea or what Mr. Flynn concluded about it.Hmmm......See tweets below.Read the full story here.
VP @mike_pence ‘reportedly' talked w Turkish PM Yıldırım on the phone about a week ago but a readout never issued by @WhiteHouse
— ilhan tanir (@WashingtonPoint) February 13, 2017
How come?
Ankara’s readout on Pence-Turkish PM B.Yıldırım mentions about ‘FETO’ i.e. Gulen extradition.
— ilhan tanir (@WashingtonPoint) February 18, 2017
White House readout has no mention#Diplomacy pic.twitter.com/EAk6myPzZ1
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