From the pastor crisis to the S-400 showdown, Turkey-US conflict still ongoing

Imran Jan
Imran Jan
Sep 5, 2018 · 5 min read

Turkey and the United States are at loggerheads with each other over the issue of two “religious preachers” from their countries respectively. The crisis was started by the Trump administration when it refused to extradite the Pennsylvania-based cult leader Fetullah Gülen and his henchmen, who were the perpetrators of the bloody 2016 coup in Turkey, despite boxes of evidence of their involvement provided by the Turkish government. The crisis was then furthered by the Turkish side when American pastor Andrew Craig Brunson…

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