U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington will pay nothing to Ankara for the release of U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, and instead "it save on Turkey." With such a statement, U.S. President spoke in his Twitter, UNN reports.
"Turkey has been using U.S. in its own interests for many years. They keep our wonderful Christian pastor ... We will not pay anything for the release of the innocent, and we will save on Turkey", Trump wrote.
It should be reminded that the Protestant pastor Andrew Brunson, who lived in Izmir region, was arrested in 2017 on charges of having links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, banned in Turkey, and the "terrorist organization of the fethullahists" (followers of the Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen). On May 7, 2018, Brunson appeared before the Turkish court and rejected accusations of terrorist activities and espionage and on July 25 he was placed under house arrest for medical reasons. The prosecutor's office demands for him 35 years of imprisonment.
