It was Trump, after all, who responded to Turkey's continued detention of Andrew Brunson-a U.S. evangelical pastor arrested on espionage charges in 2016-with a threat to remove all U.S. diplomats ...

And, we got him back,” Trump, said, recalling the Pastor Andrew Brunson crisis back in 2018. Following the coup attempt that took place in Turkey in July 2016, Erdogan’s guys kidnapped ...

of the American Pastor Andrew Brunson on an espionage charge. Tensions remained high for at least two years, during which Trump imposed sanctions against Turkey, causing the Turkish lira to plummet.