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The Grand Turk
Turkey court rules to keep US pastor jailed, next hearing July 18
2018-05-08
[IsraelTimes] A Ottoman Turkish court rules to keep in detention an American pastor locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 for the last one and a half years on terror-related charges, setting the next trial hearing for July 18.

Andrew Brunson, head of a small Protestant church in the western city of Izmir, faces up to 35 years in jail if he is convicted in a case that has strained ties with Washington.
Hostages are a long and dishonourable tradition in that part of the world.
Posted by:trailing wife

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