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U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife Norrine arrive at the airport in Izmir, Turkey Oct. 12, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas An American evangelical Christian pastor at the center of a row between Ankara and Washington looked set to fly home on Friday after a Turkish court freed him, a move that may signal a step towards mending ties between the allies.
After two years of uncertainty in a Turkish prison, Pastor Andrew Brunson, of Black Mountain, NC, is finally being released. Brunson was first imprisoned on terrorism charges after an attempted coup in the summer of 2016 against President Recep ErdoAYan.
Optimistic expectations that the Turkish system established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, republican, nationalist, secular, and modernized, would continue have been frustrated. Hopes for a successful multiparty democracy ended because of chaotic politics and military coups.
A Republican senator is calling on the Turkish government to follow the lead of North Korea's regime and release an American pastor being held hostage in the NATO nation. Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Oklahoma's James Lankford also discouraged Americans from traveling to or doing business in Turkey because the government there can "sweep up anyone for any accusation."
Cameras of members of the media are placed across from the prison complex in Aliaga, Izmir province, western Turkey, where jailed Andrew Craig Brunson appeared for his trial at a court inside the complex, Monday, April 16, 2018. Brunson, 50, a US evangelical pastor from North Carolina, was arrested in December 2016 for alleged links to both an outlawed Kurdish insurgent group and the network of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric who Turkey blames for masterminding a failed military coup that year.
A surge of Turkish anger about the reactions of NATO allies in Europe and the United States to the failed coup in July has challenged alliance ties. In addition, Turkey believes that Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish imam who lives in the U.S., was the mastermind behind the coup.
A powerful California lawmaker wants Congress to consider moving U.S. personnel and military equipment out of Turkey into other Middle Eastern countries in the wake of an attempted coup in Turkey in July. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican chair of a House subcommittee on emerging threats, said the relationship between Turkey and the United States had changed over the past decade and that Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could no longer be counted on as an ally.
Elevating the "saint of the gutters" to one of the Catholic Church's highest honors, Pope Francis praises Mother Teresa for her radical dedication to society's outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created." By Nicole Winfield.
Behind the forced smiles and obligatory handshakes that mark what could be President Barack Obama's final encounters with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin this Sunday at the G20 lurks one undeniably inconvenient reality: These days, more divides Russia and Turkey from the United States than unites them. Where you stand in life and politics has everything to do with where you sit.
Three U.S students among 20 hacked to death in Bangladesh restaurant by ISIS terrorists, who shouted Allahu Akbar and only spared those who could recite the Koran Pictured: The grinning ISIS terrorists who hacked 20 innocent victims including westerners to death but spared those who could recite the Koran in Bangladesh attack Terrifying video shows furious crowds in Turkish mosque attacking a man after he falsely declared he had a bomb during prayers Security heightened at airports across the country for record 43 million Americans traveling for Fourth of July weekend... as storms in mid-Atlantic threaten firework displays and parades Illegal immigrant, 29, who 'murdered three and critically injured another' at an Oregon pot farm had been deported SIX TIMES Police catch married female high school teacher having 'parking lot romp' with recent graduate, 18, who she had an 'ongoing sexual ... (more)