Turkey demands US arrest cleric blamed for failed coup.

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Istanbul.- Turkey officially asked the United States the arrest of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of masterminding the attempted coup of July 15, the official Turkish news agency, Anadolu reported.

The file submitted by the Attorney General of Istanbul provides that Gülen was the architect of the coup attempt and calls for his arrest as the request for extradition proceedings, he said AP.

The request was sent to the Turkish Ministry of Justice to be handed over to the US authorities.

"It has been suspended from office 76,597 people. Other 4,897 were expelled from their official position. Of these, over 3,000 are military, among the rest there are both judges and other civil servants. Summing suspended and expelled, the total is 81,494 people, "Yildirim said.

A delegation from the US Department of Justice will come to Turkey on August 22 to discuss the possibility of extradition.

According to Anadolu, Binali Yildirim Prime Minister announced that US Vice President Joe Biden arrive in the country at that time too.

Layoffs after the coup

The total number of workers in the Turkish public sector that has been dismissed or suspended from office following the failed military coup of July 15 exceeds 81,000 people, said the Turkish Prime Minister said Efe.

"It has been suspended from office 76,597 people. Other 4,897 were expelled from their official position. Of these, over 3,000 are military, among the rest there are both judges and other civil servants. Summing suspended and expelled, the total is 81,494 people, "Yildirim said.

Above all suspended officials are suspected of maintaining ties with the Brotherhood preacher Gülen.

In Ankara, the purge affected only "a little over a hundred" manifestly leftist and far approaches officials Gülen said the president of the leftist and pro-Kurdish HDP, Selahattin Demirt

Members of the brotherhood "have private communication networks have created themselves," Yildirim said during his speech, collected by NTV.

"They have established a communication infrastructure that can not use anyone else. In this communication infrastructure there are over 50,000 names. He goes for them," said the prime minister.

Although the great purges after the coup cause concern in many sectors of society, the leftist opposition maintains that "for now", the vast majority of people are seemingly suspended near the brotherhood areas.

In Ankara, the purge affected only "a little over a hundred" manifestly leftist and far approaches officials Gülen said the president of the leftist and pro-Kurdish HDP, Selahattin Demirtas, last week.

Much of the suspended officials under the Ministry of Education, which has moved away from under 15,200 employees, and will void the licenses of 21,000 teachers working in concerted education.