by TurkeyPurge | Sep 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the US to extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in return for releasing American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016. Erdoğan’s remarks came on Thursday during the...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court on Thursday charged American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in Turkey in October due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, with acquiring secret political and military information, attempting to destroy constitutional order and...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 10, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A court in İzmir on Friday ruled for the arrest of an American pastor Andrew Craig Brunson who lives in Turkey for 20 years over charges of links to Gülen movement that accused by government of masterminding the failed coup on July 15. Brunson, his wife Norine was...