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“Our Justice Department and my national security team will continue to cooperate with Turkish authorities to determine how we will make sure that those who carried out these activities are brought to justice,” Mr. Obama said. Mr. Obama didn’t address the fate of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Mr. Erdogan is seeking to extradite from the U.S.Ankara accuses Mr. Gulen, who is living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, of ordering the July 15 coup in Turkey, during which a group within the military tried to remove Mr. Erdogan from power.President Obama pledged Sunday to help Turkey prosecute the plotters of its attempted coup, while the fallout continued over Mr. Obama’s rough arrival at the Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, China.Mr. Obama told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. is committed to “investigating and bringing the perpetrators of these illegal actions to justice.”
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