anything today as the president or the same president will as we reported now has allegedly told mr ed wong that the u.s. is working on extradition has told the press here in november just about a month ago that no such plans and actions are taken at the moment or considered dorian can you explain for us why this extradition of glenn is so important for the turkish government. to some turkish ministers they are calling him turkey's osama bin laden and that gives in on the idea of how important a man chrissy's in getting him back to turkey and the reason why he's not only blamed for being a mastermind for his network will follow it for the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt which killed two hundred fifty people but he's also believed to be still posing a threat to turkish democracy through his ongoing network in turkey and to underline that every week we still see hundreds of a rights of people and they should be involved in that work. still poses a threat and that's why they think it's so important to bring him back to turkey and not only that they are also looking to washington to cooperat

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