Posted on 07/23/2018 10:15:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Andrew Craig Brunson is a pastor from NC who, for the past twenty-three years, has lived in Turkey with his wife and three children. He was the pastor of the Izmir Diriliş (the Resurrection) Church, a small evangelical Presbyterian congregation in Izmir with about twenty-five members. When he arrived home on October 7, 2016 he found a written summons to report with his passport to a local police station. Pastor Brunson assumed the summons was related to his routine application for a renewal of his residence visa so he reported to the Izmir police that same day. The police informed him that an order of deportation had been issued against him and he was considered a threat to national security. Pastor Brunson was known and respected by his own church and other Christian congregations, and the Brunson children had been educated in Turkish schools. Two of the children were born in Turkey. The family was known as people who loved and respected Turkey and the society. His wife, Norine, was initially arrested alongside him but released after 13 days. Norine later briefly met American SOS Rex Tillerson in March 2017. She is described as the main source of news concerning the fate of her husband, such as the keenness of his devout Muslim cellmates to convert him to Islam.
The order issued against Pastor Brunson was unjust, but he has not been deported. He was told at the time of his arrest that he would be deported within fifteen days. Since that day, over nineteen months ago now, Pastor Brunson has been held in detention at the Harmandali Detention Centre, He was denied access to an attorney until December 9th 2016 – over two months after his arrest when he was transferred in the middle of the night to a high security prison in Izmir...
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We must all remember this brave man in our prayers.
American Pastor Still Incarcerated in Turkey after Nineteen Months : A Well Thought Out Scream By James Riordan
Erdogan is an Islamic fascist.
[A redundant term.]
That’s putting it mildly.
Midnight Express...
Watch your Back.
Yep. The Islamist Fascist Dictator of Turkey. The Republic of Turkey is dead. This will not end well for Turkey or the Region. Nor the World.
No, he's a hostage held by a criminal. The Islamic militant running Turkey wants to trade him for a moderate sheltering in the US.
You are correct, he is a hostage.
He is being used for political purposes.
I think that if Trump and Putin are allowed to act responsibly in Syria, Erdogan has boxed himself in where no respectable government will have any thing to do with him. (No, I don’t trust Putin. But this must be approached)
For a while I thought the Kemalists might just tip the scale. Erdogan has now acted against the leader of the Kemalist Party.
Erdogan and the Mullahs in Iran are truly evil. They both support terrorists and are unrepentant in that. It will end badly for both of them. Eventually.
Yes, the last Caliphate was there and they slaughtered a million Armenians, not to mention other kafirs.
Turkey is still doing that. Has never ever admitted to the Armenian genocide. They never will.
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