"The United States is a great state and I believe will do what is expected from a great state." "If (the United States) does not return him, it will have sacrificed Turkey to a terrorist," Bozdag said. Turkey has branded Gulen's movement a terror organization and wants him returned to Turkey to face trial. Turkey's justice minister said Tuesday the United States would be sacrificing its alliance with Turkey to "a terrorist" if it were to refuse to extradite a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who the government says is behind the July 15 failed coup. Bozdag said Turkish authorities are still investigating who, after Gulen, was the number 2 suspect in the coup plot.

Source: ABC News August 09, 2016 08:00 UTC