US sanctions over arrested Protestant pastor. Erdogan: Evangelist and Zionist mentality
In probable first US issues sanctions against a NATO ally. The sanctions affect personalities of the ministries of justice and interior. A declaration on religious freedom in Turkey signed by the patriarch Bartholomew I, the Armenian vicar Aram Atesyan, the chief rabbi Ishak Haleva. Erdogan uses the pastor as "bargaining chip" to obtain the extradition of Feithullah Guelen.
