{"id":54290,"date":"2026-04-02T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/54290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:12:08","slug":"turkey-presses-netherlands-on-217-extradition-requests-tied-to-gulen-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/54290\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey presses Netherlands on 217 extradition requests tied to G\u00fclen movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Turkish-Dutch-justice-ministers-1.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Turkish-Dutch justice ministers\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Turkish-Dutch-justice-ministers-1-696x454.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Turkish-Dutch-justice-ministers-1-696x454.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Turkish-Dutch justice ministers\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s justice minister said Ankara has asked the Netherlands to extradite 217 people over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, renewing a long-running demand during talks in Ankara on Wednesday with Dutch Justice and Security Minister David van Weel, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has been targeting followers of the G\u00fclen movement, inspired by the late Muslim scholar Fethullah G\u00fclen, since corruption investigations in December 2013 implicated him as well as some members of his family and inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the investigations as a G\u00fclenist coup and a conspiracy against his government, Erdo\u011fan began to target the movement\u2019s members. He designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016 and intensified the crackdown on it following an abortive putsch in July of the same year that he accused G\u00fclen of masterminding. The movement strongly denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Justice Minister Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrlek said the meeting with the Dutch minister focused on judicial cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted after the meeting, G\u00fcrlek said Turkish officials reminded the Dutch delegation of Turkey\u2019s campaign against the G\u00fclen movement. He said Turkey also sought the extradition of a leftist militant accused by Ankara of ordering the 2015 hostage killing of prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz.<\/p>\n<p>The extradition push comes as Dutch courts continue to treat cases involving G\u00fclen movement supporters with caution. On March 25 the Dutch Council of State, the country\u2019s highest administrative court, said the human rights situation for G\u00fclen supporters in Turkey remains \u201cworrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures from the Justice Ministry, more than 126,000 people have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/basin.adalet.gov.tr\/adalet-bakani-yilmaz-tunc-canli-yayinda-sorulari-yanitladi_114893\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convicted<\/a>\u00a0for alleged links to the movement since 2016, with 11,085 still in prison. Legal proceedings are ongoing for over 24,000 individuals, while another 58,000 remain under active investigation nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the thousands who were jailed, scores of other G\u00fclen movement followers had to flee Turkey to avoid the government crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s justice minister said Ankara has asked the Netherlands to extradite 217 people over alleged links to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[6873,22782,30081,311,312,16691,200,429,131,132,315,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-54290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-crackdown-on-gulen-movement","9":"tag-david-van-weel","10":"tag-extradition-requests","11":"tag-gulen-movement","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-justice-minister-akin-gurlek","14":"tag-netherlands","15":"tag-oppression","16":"tag-stockholm","17":"tag-sweden","18":"tag-transnational-repression","19":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116336705280973735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}