Obama mum after 'best friend' tosses U.S. pastor in prison
Pastor Andrew Brunson, 48, is a U.S. citizen from Black Mountain, North Carolina, who has been ministering in Turkey for 23 years.
He has raised his family there and loves the Turkish people.
But on Oct. 7 he was tricked into appearing at a government office where he was told he would be given a long-awaited permanent residency card. Instead he was detained and “falsely accused of membership in an armed terrorist organization,” reports the American Center for Law and Justice.
His wife Norine was released on Oct. 19 and given an extended permit to remain in the country. But Andrew Brunson was arrested and held since Oct. 20 at the Harmandali Detention Center on the northern edge of Izmir.
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