TURKEY SUGGESTS SWAPPING JAILED U.S. PASTOR FOR MUSLIM CLERIC
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(Fox News) — President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
suggested Turkey could free an imprisoned American pastor if the Trump
administration extradites a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania—but the
State Department says that won’t happen.
American Pastor Andrew Brunson says he was jailed on bogus terrorism
charges since his arrest last October. Erdoğan wants to put the cleric,
Fetullah Gulen, on trial for allegedly masterminding last year’s failed
coup, and has now made clear Brunson has become a bargaining chip in
that effort.Erdoğan said Thursday that Washington was pressing Turkey to return one “cleric” while refusing to hand over another “cleric.”
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