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Erdogan must ASAP hang the CIA Spy Andrew Brunson, BBQ his corpse and fed to snakes! Show Dotard how to get Golden Shower in his face!

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Andrew Brunson: US hits Turkey with sanctions over jailed pastor

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Pastor Andrew Brunson was moved to house arrest last month due to health issues
The US has imposed sanctions on Turkey's justice and interior ministers over the continued detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
The evangelical from North Carolina has been held for nearly two years over alleged links to political groups.
"We believe he's a victim of unfair and unjust detention," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
Turkey has said US demands for Mr Brunson's release are "unacceptable", adding it will respond to "hostility".
"We call on the US administration to row back from this wrong decision," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Without delay, there will be a response to this aggressive attitude that will not serve any purpose," it continued.
The US Treasury Department later said Turkey's Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu were targeted because they "serve as leaders of Turkish government organizations responsible for implementing Turkey's serious human rights abuses".
'Nato allies at each other's throats'
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Presidents Trump and Erdogan met at a Nato summit in Brussels last month
By Mark Lowen, BBC Turkey correspondent
It is unprecedented for the US to hit a Nato ally with sanctions. The relationship has plunged to its lowest level in decades.
But it is remarkable to think that in 2016, Turkey's government was gunning for a Donald Trump victory. Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's disgraced former national security advisor, was paid to lobby for Turkey in Washington. There was confidence that presidents Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan could form a strongman partnership to reset ties.
President Erdogan is known for lashing out at Western leaders. He hasn't taken kindly to being the one browbeaten by the US.
Pro-government columnists are calling for the US military base here to be shut down. A crucial security partnership is at risk with two Nato allies at each other's throats.
Meanwhile, Turks are suffering as the lira reaches new lows. Erdogan critics say he should have been sanctioned long ago - over mass arrests, human rights violations and buying a missile defence system from Russia. But now sanctions have come, the fear is of what two unpredictable leaders will do next.

Speaking to reporters, Sarah Sanders said: "We've seen no evidence that Pastor Brunson has done anything wrong."
She added that the two Turkish ministers had both played "leading roles" in the arrest of the US pastor.
"As a result, any property or interest in property of both ministers within US jurisdiction is blocked and US persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them," she said.
Ms Sanders also said that President Trump had discussed the matter with President Erdogan "multiple times".
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Last week, President Trump warned Turkey it would face "large sanctions" if it did not release Mr Brunson immediately.
Following Wednesday's announcement, the Turkish lira lost 1.6% of its value to fall to 5.0 against the US dollar.
Who is Andrew Brunson?
Mr Brunson is a long-term resident in Turkey. He lived with his wife and three children while working as the pastor of the small Izmir Resurrection Church, which had a congregation of about two dozen.
The authorities accuse him of having links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Gulenist movement, which Turkey blames for a 2016 failed coup.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Turkey has urged the US to extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen
Mr Brunson has denied charges of espionage, but faces up to 35 years in jail if found guilty.
He was moved into house arrest last month for health reasons, but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this was not enough.
"We have seen no credible evidence against Mr Brunson," Mr Pompeo tweeted at the time.
Turkey's foreign ministry said it had shared "necessary information" with the US, but insisted the case should be left with its judiciary.
What is Turkey's motivation?
Mr Brunson is one of 20 Americans who were charged after the coup two years ago, according to the New York Times.
More than 50,000 people were arrested in Turkey in President Erdogan's huge post-coup crackdown.
He blames Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen for the attempt, but Mr Gulen denies any involvement.
Turkey wants the US to agree to his extradition. Mr Erdogan has indicated he would swap the pastor for "the priest" (Mr Gulen).
US support for Kurdish forces fighting the Syrian civil war has also angered Mr Erdogan, who views them as an extension of the PKK.
The PKK - a Turkish-Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy since the 1980s - is considered a terrorist group by Turkey and the US.
 

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Just handover to ISIS, exchange for Turkish POW from ISIS if there were any, or exchange for secret intelligence against USA. Let ISIS broadcast Youtube Live Execution of American POW Brunson. Let Dotard watch and masturbate at the same time.
 

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https://www.rt.com/news/435730-turkish-lawyers-us-soldier-arrests/


Turkish lawyers want US soldiers arrested for 'ties to coup movement'
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Turkish lawyers are calling for US soldiers at Incirlik Air Base to be arrested, alleging they have ties to the movement behind the 2016 coup attempt. They want the base searched via warrants and flights leaving it to be halted.
As the political row between Ankara and Washington intensifies, the attorneys from the pro-government Association for Social Justice and Aid ask for the “arrest of the commanders of the US Air Force who are the superiors of the soldiers based at Incirlik and took a role in the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.”
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The details of the demands have been outlined in court documents filed at the chief public prosecutor’s office in Adana, published online by the Stockholm Center for Freedom, a group of exiled Turkish journalists.
The lawyers accuse the US military of attempting to destroy constitutional order through their activities with a movement led by Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara claims was behind the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
“We want to arrest American soldiers for serious ties to FETO (Gülen movement) or in other words global American terror,” Muhammed Gömük, president of TayDer (Social Justice and Aid) told RT, adding that there are 12 “suspicious persons” implicated.
“We believe that all blames are true, absolutely, because we provided very strong evidence.”
Gömük said the investigation could spread to “lots of American officials,” including soldiers, embassy and consulate personnel. He went on to mention John Bass, the former US ambassador, claiming he had been “chatting with the coup team, according to a video record.”
In addition to their detention, the complaint seeks search and seizure warrants for the base, in order to gather evidence. It also seeks the halting of all outbound US flights from the base. Incirlik, an important staging base for combat operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), is home to roughly 2,200 Americans, according to RealClear Defense.
When asked by RT what kind of response it expected from Washington, Gömük said its reaction “is not important so much,” as Turkey does not respect the US.
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Meanwhile, US European Command spokesman Mark Mackowiak told the Air Force Times that “any reports that US government or military personnel had any previous knowledge or involvement in a Turkey coup attempt are baseless and completely false.”
The petition comes after the US levied economic sanctions on Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul for their roles in the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held since October 2016 on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization – allegations which the US and international human rights organizations say are false.
Tensions between the US and Turkey, both NATO members, have steadily worsened in recent years, partly surrounding Ankara’s crackdown following the failed coup attempt. The situation declined again in October 2017, when Turkey arrested a US consulate worker for alleged ties to Gülen. The two have also recently been at odds over Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400s, with the US holding back on its delivery of F-35 jets to Turkey over the issue.
 

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World War Three may break out because of USA's agony
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Will there be an all-destructive war in the near future? Is mankind going to commit suicide? Why do the powers-that-be walk on thin ice even if they know that this ice is too thin? Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova talked about it in an interview with military political scientist, the head of the department of political science and sociology of the Plekhanov Russian Economic University, Andrei Koshkin.
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"For a very long time, the state of affairs in the world had been determined by the relations and rivalry between two countries - the Soviet Union and the United States. All other countries were following them in the fairway. There was also the Non-Aligned Movement, but the construction then collapsed and we all woke up in the unipolar world. Russia has been gaining authority lately, but it is the United States of America that remains the dominating power in the world. Can Trump change the world either for the better or for the worse?"
"I think that the world will eventually come to realize that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a huge global tragedy. Indeed, the United States of America had obtained an opportunity to build a new unipolar world where it could dominate as the world gendarme. The world has not become better for anyone, and I believe that the Americans have to deal with a plethora of problems because of that.
Today, however, they simply do not want to give up on this role of theirs - the role of American exceptionalism. They can see other political centers of power rising on the horizon - China in the first place. Europe, too, would like to pursue a foreign policy that would influence the whole world, and all that is connected with Russia.



Today, it is Donald Trump who personifies the agony of USA's global domination. I call him the stress manager. He used to be a crisis manager, and he is proud of that, but I call him a stress manager. At first, he created a stressful atmosphere inside NATO when he started forcing NATO members to pay their fees. Then, he told the EU that the US would pull out from the Iranian deal. That was a very stressful situation for the EU as well, because European countries had invested a lot in Iran by that time. They wanted profits, but not threats.
Trump also created a big stress around North Korea. He then went to the Middle East and created a stressful situation there having formed the Middle Eastern version of NATO. Trump creates stressful situations everywhere he goes to gain economic profits from that afterwards."
"The world is balancing today on the verge of a global war. Do you think mankind will be wise enough not to commit suicide? Bulgarian prophetess Vanga used to predict that the Third World War would start in Syria. Do you think it can be possible?"



"The Middle East is the kitchen of world politics. This is where they cook everything and this is where they keep the knives. The Middle East is the place that gave birth to all major religions in the world. This is the center, where the interests of world's most powerful states converge. The United States of America has been destroying the statehood of Iraq and Libya, and now they are ready to do the same to Syria.
"They are doing it to create chaos and then manipulate it. However, one can manipulate chaos only at its initial stage. Of course, no one has been able to resolve the contradictions of the Middle East. One can see Israel standing up against Iran. This is how they create situations, in which they can start using modern weapons in the region."
"What do you think is going to happen now in Syria?"
"I would give an optimistic forecast. We live today in order to create conditions under which we can live tomorrow just as happily as we live today. To date, thanks to the balanced foreign policy of Russia both in the Middle East and in Europe, there are conditions for restraining aggressive politicians. It is only the policy of the Russian Federation that can chill both Western and Mideastern hotheads."
 
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