Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that threats and sanctions will not work, after Washington targeted Turkish ministers over the detention of an American pastor. “We have said from the start that the other side’s threatening language and sanctions will not get ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that US sanctions on Turkey showed Washington was “very serious” in demanding the release of an American pastor whose detention has sparked a diplomatic crisis. Andrew Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, was placed under house arrest ...