Rudy Giuliani is said to have privately implored President Trump in 2017 to extradite an opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the United States.

Former U.S. officials told the Washington Post that Giuliani, who last year became Trump’s personal attorney, repeatedly pressed the president to remove Fethullah Gülen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania. Erdoğan wants Gülen to stand trial on charges of putting together a failed coup in 2016, but Gülen denies being involved.

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