by TurkeyPurge | Oct 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court on Friday convicted American pastor Andrew Brunson of aiding terrorism but sentenced him to time served and ordered his immediate release, The Washington Post reported. The case of the evangelical preacher caught up in Turkey’s post-coup security sweep...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
“When I read the newspapers, I sometimes feel frustrated like they’re only trying to save Pastor Andrew Brunson, but not us.” These words reportedly uttered by Kubra Gölge, the wife of Serkan Gölge, a 37-year-old physicist and research scientist at the National...
by TurkeyPurge | May 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A secret witness testifying against American pastor Andrew Brunson has claimed that Brunson helped militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and “aimed to create a Christian Kurdish state” in Turkey, the Hürriyet Daily News reported. The trial of...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 21, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Sixty-six U.S. senators released a letter on April 20 calling on the Turkish government to release an American pastor on trial in Turkey over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. Andrew Brunson, a Christian pastor...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 13, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday demanded life imprisonment for American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016, over alleged links to a failed coup attempt in July 2016, the Doğan news agency reported. Brunson, who was jailed due to...
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