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Pastor Andrew Brunson's lawyer requested Monday that he be released and his ban on leaving the country also be lifted. But a court in Izmir rejected the petition on Tuesday, according to Anadolu.
The lawyer, Cem Halavurt, was not immediately available.
Pastor Brunson was placed under house arrest on Wednesday after having spent more than a year and a half in pre-trial detention after his arrest in October 2016, as part of the purges launched by Ankara in the aftermath of the failed coup in July of the same year.
He is accused by the Turkish authorities for having acted on behalf of the network of the preacher Fethullah Gülen to which Ankara imputes, in spite of the denials of the latter, the failed putsch, but also for that of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK, Kurdish rebels).
These two organizations are considered "terrorists" by the Turkish authorities
M. Brunson, who has been living in Turkey for about 20 years and headed a small Protestant church in Izmir before his arrest, denies the charges in its entirety.
This case has helped to stretch the relations between Ankara and Washington, US President Donald Trump has called several times for his release.
Tension mounted a notch last week when Trump and Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey of "heavy penalties" if pastor
But his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan countered by saying that he could not "force Turkey to back down with sanctions."
The National Security Council, chaired by Mr. Erdogan, said in a statement on Monday night that the "threatening language" used by the United States was "unacceptable" and "disrespectful of cooperative relations" between the two countries.
La Turq The US and the United States are facing a wide range of dissenters, including Ankara's criticism of Washington's support for a Syrian Kurdish militia and the US administration's refusal to extradite Fethullah Gülen, who lives in Pennsylvania.
On the other hand, The imprisonment by Turkey of two local employees of the US missions and the placing under house arrest of a third contributed to tending the bilateral relations
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