UPDATES WITH MORE QUOTES FROM TURKISH PRESIDENT</p> <p>By Diyar Guldogan</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – The end of members of the terror group FETO both in Turkey and abroad is "near," warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday.</p> <p>"I call on all FETO members inside and outside our country: Your end is near. You have nowhere to go, nothing you can do," Erdogan told a symposium in the capital Ankara on the new presidential system.</p> <p>Erdogan said Fetullah Gulen, the U.S.-based ringleader of the terror group behind the defeated 2016 coup, will come to Turkey "sooner or later".</p> <p>"I don't know how long those who stood behind FETO [leader Gulen] will keep supporting him, but sooner or later he will come here," said Erdogan.</p> <p>Turkish leaders recently indicated that the U.S. has stepped up operations against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in America, as well as renewed efforts to extradite Gulen, a longtime resident of Pennsylvania.</p> <p>FETO and Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.</p> <p>Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, including the military, police, and the judiciary.</p> <p>Erdogan said that Turkey will follow FETO members "until they have no place left in the world to hide."</p> <p> <p>He also said Turkey countered attacks "quickly and effectively" over the last 16 years through its democracy and economy.</p> <p>"Hopefully, Turkey will enter a strong new period in 2019," Erdogan added.
