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A person on Saturday assaulted a Turkish journalist throughout his reside broadcast close to the residence of FETO terror group chief Fetullah Gulen within the US state of Pennsylvania.
Yunus Paksoy, a reporter with Turkish information channel CNN Turk, was reporting reside when a person believed to be supporter of the Fethullah Terrorist Group (FETO) drove in direction of him along with his car.
Later, the footage exhibits the person emerge from his SUV car and apparently hit Paksoy within the face.
“My glasses and cellphone flew away, I used to be attacked. My shirt was torn. I received into my automobile proper now (and) referred to as the police, they’ll be right here quickly, I’ll file a grievance. It doesn’t matter what, you haven’t any proper to the touch anybody right here,” Paksoy stated when he resumed his broadcast.
In a name with the reporter, Türkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun supplied his “sincerest get-well quickly” needs to Paksoy.
“Our authorities will comply with up on this problem and that we’ll take each step earlier than the US authorities to make sure that these concerned on this vile assault obtain the punishment they deserve,” stated Altun on X.
“We are going to proceed to combat in opposition to terrorists who’re enemies of Türkiye, wherever they’re on the earth. We owe our gratitude to truth-loving journalists for shouldering this wrestle,” Altun wrote.
The assault got here a day after Anadolu filmed the world of the residence with a drone, wanting into allegations that the FETO chief had been taken to a spot apart from the headquarters the place he has stayed for a few years.
Gulen’s nephew, Ebuseleme Gulen, claimed in a social media publish final week that the FETO chief had been kidnapped from his residence.
Anadolu footage confirmed that the once-full parking zone now had only some autos, and just one individual was seen getting into or exiting one of many guesthouses within the space.
In response to his nephew’s claims, Gulen is being held at an unknown location by Cevdet Turkyolu, often called the “black field” of the group, together with Barbaros Kocakurt, Mustafa Ozcan, and Gulen’s private physician, Kudret Unal.
FETO and its US-based chief Fethullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 through which 252 folks had been killed and a couple of,734 wounded in Türkiye.
Gulen has lengthy lived within the US state of Pennsylvania. For the reason that 2016 coup try, Turkish leaders have sought the extradition of Gulen, however US officers haven’t accepted this, saying that what Türkiye submitted falls wanting the usual required. The refusal to extradite has lengthy been a thorn within the facet of Turkish-US relations.
*Islam Dogru contributed to the story
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