Almost two years ago, the American Presbyterian minister Andrew Brunson was taken hostage by the Turkish government.
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The charges against him—“political or military espionage” and “support for a terrorist group”—are absurd.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen extradited from the United States—he holds a paranoid grudge against Gülen, whom he blames for a coup attempt in 2016—and erroneously thought the…
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have both paid close attention to the case. The president tweeted in April: “Pastor Andrew Brunson, a…