In Latest Escalation in U.S.-Turkey Row, Erdogan Orders Sanctions on “America’s Justice and Interior Ministers”

On Saturday, President Recep Tayipp Erdogan of Turkey announced sanctions against two American officials in retaliation to sanctions imposed by U.S. against two Turkish government ministers, the AP reports. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control originally froze the assets of Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu because both officials were determined to have played “leading roles” on the arrest and detention of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical pastor working in the city of Izmir, Turkey. Brunson, 50, leads the Resurrection Church in Izmir, a small congregation of less than 30 people. Erdogan’s authorities arrested him in October 2016, in the aftermath of the 2016 failed coup attempt. The Turkish government has charged Brunson with espionage, as well as providing assistance to organizations such as the Gulen movement and Kurdistan Worker’s Party, both of which Turkey…

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