New York Daily News

Turkey: Not in with Flynn

- Rich Schapiro

THE TURKISH government has denied offering $15 million to exnational security adviser Michael Flynn in a plot to kidnap an exiled cleric based in Pennsylvan­ia.

The Turkish Embassy in Washington strongly pushed back on a Friday report that it was scheming with Flynn and his son to deliver Fethullah Gulen to Istanbul.

“All allegation­s that Turkey would resort to means external to the rule of law for his extraditio­n are utterly false, ludicrous and groundless,” the statement said.

The denial comes after The Wall Street Journal reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigat­ing Flynn’s role in the aborted plot.

FBI agents have grilled at least four people about a December meeting at the 21 Club in Midtown where Flynn and Turkish government officials allegedly discussed capturing Gulen, according to the Journal.

The group reportedly mulled the possibilit­y of spiriting the 76-year-old cleric by private jet to a Turkish prison island.

The report marks the latest chapter in the legal saga embroiling the disgraced Flynn.

The onetime intelligen­ce officer stepped down after 24 days in the White House because he failed to reveal that his firm was being paid $530,000 by Turkish interests.

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