US says evaluating new Turkish documents on alleged coup leader
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WASHINGTON - The United States is evaluating new documents sent by Turkey to push for the extradition of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of the country's recent failed coup, a State Department spokesman said on Thursday.
"The Turkish authorities (made) several deliveries of documents to us and we're in the process of going through those documents," spokesman Mark Toner told a daily news briefing.
Toner said the first batch "did not, we believe, constitute a formal extradition request."
He added: "We subsequently received more documents. We're looking through them ... and I don't think they've reached that determination yet."
