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 ...
Turkey was on Thursday drawing up retaliatory measures after Washington slapped sanctions on two Turkish ministers in the one of the biggest crises between the two NATO allies in recent years. Tensions have soared over Turkey’s detention on terror charges of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was first held in ...