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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Steps taken by the United States about pastor Andrew Brunson were not suitable for a strategic partner and were disrespectful to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
Washington this week imposed sanctions on two
Speaking to the women’s wing of his AK Party, Erdogan said he gave orders for assets in Turkey belonging to the US interior and justice ministers to be frozen "if they have any".
On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department on hit Turkey’s justice and interior ministers with sanctions over the case of an American pastor being tried on terror charges.
"We believe he’s a victim of unfair and unjust attention by the government of Turkey," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told journalists, referring to Andrew Brunson, an American pastor at the center of a bitter diplomatic spat between NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies.
Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, was sent to his room last week after nearly two years in jail.