Posted on Jul 16, 2016
SPC Kirk Gilles
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SFC Garrison Staff Training Nco
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No... If they send him back, it'll be a matter of hours (if he's lucky) until his execution.
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
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No.
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SFC Everett Oliver
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Turkey has always been an Allie of the USA, but Turkey's Military has stepped in and corrected their democratic Government several times. This time the correction seems to have failed. As long as it can be shown that Gulen has broken no US laws then no we should not extradite him. Besides that Turkey is now headed towards Radical Islam....
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SSG Drill Sergeant
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No, you'll open up a can of worms you don't need. Erdogan is now looking over his shoulder now because he knows people want him out. So he had better get his house in order
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Capt Michael Greene
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All my reading says Gullen is a good guy striving peacefully to join world religious leaders together and bring Islam into the 21st century. Erdogan looks more like a bad guy, but he controls the center court of the region, including the back door to Russia.

We can't in good conscience extradite Gullen but we really need Erdogan's good will. Time to play carrot and stick.
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PO1 Brian Austin
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Turkey has cut commercial power to Incirilk AB (still has own internal power) and closed the air space, grounding all flights.
Coincidence? I would guess not.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/07/16/turkey-cuts-power-to-incirlik-air-base-suspends-military-flights.html
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SFC Opsnco
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Short answer is "No."

The reason is he has been granted asylum in the U.S. Under this protection his status is defined as "any person who is outside his or her country of residence or nationality, or without nationality, and is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." If the U.S. were to return him to Turkey we would be going against our own laws (Public Law 96-212) in returning this man to face certain death when he has already proved to the U.S. that he genuinely fears for his life. Additionally, what message would this send to other asylum seekers already involved in the lengthy asylum process or to those who have already been granted asylum.

Lastly, U.S. extradition law provides a means to send a fugitive found in the United States to another country for trial or punishment. per the letter of the law in "The Extradition of Fugitives Clause" in the Constitution requires the U.S., upon demand of another country, to deliver a fugitive from justice who has committed a "treason, felony or other crime" to the State from which the fugitive has fled. In reality he never fled Turkey for committing this "treason." He allegedly committed a crime from another country.
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SSG Roger Ayscue
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HELL YES! We did not send the Shah of Iran back to answer for his crimes and look at the mess that caused. Send this "cleric" back to face the music. What? He is still here? That is how fast I would put that guy in an SR71 and break the world airspeed record getting him back there.
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Hell no. If anything, we should be breaking out the texts books and showing Erdogan what happens to totalitarian pieces of trash that try to push their personal agendas on the United States legal system. In fact, I could think of a few other people in need of this kind of lesson...
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