MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier, CNN Turk reported that Kerry was going to visit Turkey at the end of this month.
If the visit does take place, it will be the first by a top Western official since the failed military coup.
On July 15, an attempted coup took place in Turkey that was suppressed the following day. Over 240 people were killed during the coup attempt and an estimated 2,000 were wounded. Ankara has accused US-based dissident Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers of playing a key role in the coup.
Turkey has been asking the United States for the extradition of Gulen.
Gulen, who has lived in the US state of Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied allegations that he orchestrated the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey.
