Turkey's Dangerous Game of 'Hostage Diplomacy'
How an American pastor became a political pawn for Erdogan Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters during a meeting of the ruling AK Party in Izmir,
On October 7, 2016, Andrew Brunson, a 50-year-old American pastor working as a missionary in Turkey, received a call from the police requesting that he come in for a visit. Since 1995, Brunson had lived in the city of Izmir in western Turkey, serving as a Presbyterian pastor. When the police got in touch, he had been awaiting the renewal of his residence permit, and figured it might be ready. Instead, the police detained him on suspicions of collaborating with terrorists, and imprisoned him without charges for the next year and a half.
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