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'Gossipy tidbits about the U.S. association are debilitating the security of Americans in Turkey and could harm respective ties' 

President Barack Obama on Friday pushed back against relentless hypothesis in Turkey that the United States was behind the fizzled military overthrow there, saying that the gossipy tidbits debilitated the wellbeing of Americans in the nation and could harm its ties with the U.S. 

'Totally false' 

"Any reports that we had any past learning of an overthrow endeavor, that there was any U.S. contribution in it, that we were something besides altogether strong of Turkish vote based system are totally false, unequivocally false," Mr. Obama said at a news gathering at the White House. 

The President said he had awed that message on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when the two talked by phone on Tuesday. A couple days prior, Turkey's Labor Minister Suleyman Soylu, who is near Mr. Erdogan, told a TV slot that "America is behind the overthrow". The gossipy tidbits have been fuelled by the way that a Turkish pastor, Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey's pioneers blame for being the upset's manikin expert, is living in purposeful outcast in Pennsylvania. 

The President's comments were his most broad and emphatic reaction to the counter American conclusion that has risen in Turkey since the overthrow endeavor dove the nation into turmoil. In any case, Mr. Obama was more vigilant in reacting to Mr. Erdogan's wholesale cleanse after the overthrow, an impression of the delicacy of the President's way to deal with a nation that is a NATO associate and a basic accomplice in the battle against the Islamic State (IS). 

Feeling of stun 

Mr. Obama said Turkey expected to lead its examination of the overthrow endeavor "reliable with the tenet of law". In any case, he communicated sensitivity for the Turkish pioneer's feeling of stun after he and his legislature went under sudden assault. 

Mr. Obama affirmed that Mr. Erdogan had squeezed him to hand over Mr. Gulen, yet said he had told the Turkish pioneer that it was not his choice to make. "I told President Erdogan that they ought to present us with confirmation that they think shows the association of Mr. Gulen."