Turkey: still being held
World Watch Monitor / CNN
The American Charge d’Affaires in Ankara
said in late June that Turkey’s continued
detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson on
spying and terrorism-related charges was
impeding US-Turkish relations.
Philip Kosnett said there is a ‘strong sense
of unity in Congress between Republicans
and Democrats’ on the need for Brunson
to be released. He continued that there is:
‘A similar sense of unity between Congress
and the administration that, in order for the
relationship between Turkey and the US
to progress, we need to resolve that status
not only
for Brunson but also
for other
American citizens and local Turkish employees of US missions who we feel are detained
unjustly under the state of emergency’.