The Turkish lawyer for a US pastor at the center of a diplomatic spat between NATO allies Ankara and Washington appeals to a court for his client’s release.
Andrew Brunson, who ran a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, was moved to house arrest last week after nearly two years in prison on terror-related charges.
But his lawyer Cem Halavurt tells AFP that he submitted an appeal for Brunson’s “house arrest and the ban on him leaving the country to be lifted.”
The court must give a response within three days, Halavurt adds. The next hearing in Brunson’s trial is only on October 12.
Brunson faces up to 35 years in jail if convicted of carrying out activities on behalf of two groups Turkey deems to be terror groups, namely, the movement of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
— AFP
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