Turkish justice minister warns of anti-US sentiment

Turkey’s justice minister has said that Anti-American sentiment among Turks is on the rise and will only be calmed if the US extradites the Muslim cleric whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating last month’s failed coup.

Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan blames Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania since 1999, and his followers for the coup on July 15 in which more than 240 people were killed and nearly 2,200 wounded.

Turkey has launched a series of mass purges of suspected Gulen supporters in its armed forces, other state institutions, universities, schools, and the media since the abortive coup, prompting Western concerns for the stability of a key Nato ally.