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    Angered At Pastor's Detention, U.S. Levels Sanctions Against Turkish Officials

    Andrew Brunson was swept up in the arrests that followed the failed 2016 coup in Turkey. Now, he's become a focus of tensions between NATO allies — tensions that substantially escalated Wednesday.
    by Colin Dwyer Aug 01, 2018 2 minutes
    Andrew Craig Brunson, seen flanked by two Turkish police officers in plainclothes in Izmir last week.

    Updated at 5:45 p.m. ET

    The U.S. is imposing sanctions against two high-level Turkish officials, retaliating for what the Treasury Department calls the "unfair and unjust detention" of an American pastor in Izmir. The penalties announced Wednesday, which aim to punish the chiefs of Turkey's ministries of justice and the interior, mark a significant escalation in the recent frictions

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