Washington believes Andrew Brunson, who has been in jail since December 2016, is one of several Americans unjustly detained in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
. During a visit to Ankara last month, former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for him to be freed.
The Christian pastor from North Carolina has been living in Turkey for 23 years and running a church, according to an online petition seeking his release.
The prosecutor charged him with being an "executive" of the group that Ankara holds responsible for the failed coup, the news agency said. Turkey blames the network of Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world..., a US-based Moslem holy man who denies all involvement.