Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a not a friend of America, and he is certainly not a friend of freedom, particularly religious freedom. American pastor Andrew Brunson has learned this only too well during the two years he’s been under arrest in Turkey on trumped up charges of “terrorism” and involvement in a coup, when the only thing he’s really guilty of is preaching the Gospel.
But then, that’s a pretty big crime in Erdoğan’s eyes, as commitment to Jesus Christ is incompatible with fealty to his regime.