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    US threatens to punish Turkey unless it frees detained American minister

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Jul 26, 2018 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - At a conference Thursday affirming the U.S. commitment to global religious freedom, Vice President Mike Pence threatened economic sanctions against Turkey if its government fails to release an American minister being held there.

    Pence denounced Turkey's 2-year-long imprisonment of Protestant minister Andrew Brunson and threatened to impose harsh economic sanctions on the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if Brunson is not freed.

    Brunson was released from Turkish prison this week but

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