US President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States was not going to take Turkey’s detention of US Christian pastor Andrew Brunson “sitting down,” a day after his Treasury chief said Washington could hit Ankara with further sanctions, Reuters reported.
“They should have given him back a long time ago, and Turkey has, in my opinion, acted very, very badly,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “So, we haven’t seen the last of that. We are not going to take it sitting down. They can’t take our people.”
“They made up this phony charge that he’s a spy, and he’s not a spy. He’s going through a trial right now if you call it a trial,” he added.
US President @realDonaldTrump speaks up on #Erdogan‘s #Turkey, this time not via Twitter but directly to the cameras as Marine chopper waiting to pick him up from the White House lawn. “Turkey has been a problem for a long time…We have not seen the last of it”, he says.
