By Jerome R. Corsi - NEW YORK – The Clinton Foundation was engaged in a pay-to-play scheme to obtain Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support for giving asylum to the Turkish Muslim preacher the Erdogan government holds responsible for the attempted coup, Fethullah Gulen, according to sources close to the Turkish government and emails released by WikiLeaks and Judicial Watch. Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin sent several emails that suggest she was the intermediary between Gulen’s organization in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains and the Clinton Foundation. Sources close to the Turkish government have explained to WND on the condition of anonymity their concern that a Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme is behind the Obama administration refusal to extradite Gulen, the radical Turkish imam the Turkish government considers the mastermind behind the failed July 15 coup.

The American-Turkish Council (ATC) and the Turkish US Business Council honered Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and founder ofComodo, a global cybersecurity innovator, with the “Mustafa V. Koç Business Leadership” Award at the35th Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations.  Abdulhayoglu is being recognized for making the largest American R&D investment into Turkey.

The U.S. may not have shown enough sympathy for Turkey after the defeated July 15 coup attempt, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken conceded Tuesday. "Maybe we didn't communicate that we understood the depth of feeling the emotion in Turkey for the events of July," Blinken said at the American Turkish Council and U.S.-Turkish Business Council’s 35th Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkish Relations.  Saying that the Turkish people fought bravely for the Turkish nation and democracy, he said that the U.S., as a NATO ally, remains steadfast in supporting the democratically elected Turkish government and its institutions.

Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Thursday that Turkey submitted additional files for the extradition and provisional arrest of Fetullah Terrorist Organization's (FETO) leader Fetullah Gulen. He said it was the U.S.'s turn to process the files. “During yesterday’s visit [with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch], we submitted the attorney general three folders containing the additional information and documents requested by the U.S.,” Bozdag said during a news conference at the Turkish embassy in Washington DC. He added that Turkey made the extradition request within the framework and standards of the law and expected the legal process to take place since Ankara made the first request last July.