ADVERTISEMENT
  • The Membership Club
  • PT Hausa
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Premium Times Nigeria
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Opinion
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Parliament Watch
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • AGAHRIN
Premium Times Nigeria
BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad BUA Group Ad
ADVERTISEMENT
President Recep Erdogan

Turkish President, Recep Erdogan Facts on Turkey

Turkey seeks life in prison for U.S. pastor

byAgency Report
March 13, 2018
1 min read
ADVERTISEMENT

A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday requested life imprisonment for detained American pastor, Andrew Brunson, over alleged links to a failed coup attempt in 2016, the private Dogan news agency said.

In 2017, President Tayyip Erdogan had suggested that Turkey could free Brunson if the U.S. handed over Fethulla Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Ankara blames for the attempted military putsch.

NAN reports that Mr. Brunson was charged with “membership in an armed terrorist organisation,” “gathering state secrets for espionage, attempting to overthrow the Turkish parliament and government, and to change the constitutional order.”

A December 14, 2016 Sabah daily news story based on an informant said Mr. Brunson, while dispensing aid among Syrian refugees, tried to divide Turkey with sermons praising Gulenism and by speaking in support of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The newspaper Takvim alleges Mr. Brunson, a “high-level member of the Gulen movement” and an American spy, positioned to have become CIA chief in Turkey had the 2016 coup attempt succeeded.

Takvim’s editor-in-chief, Ergun Diler, alleged that Mr. Brunson fended off an attempt to assassinate him by the use of skills derived from his intelligence agency training, and that Mr. Brunson was influential all over the region.

According to a February 2017 letter to Mr. Erdogan signed by 78 members of the U.S. Congress, “There appears to be no evidence to substantiate the charges against him for membership in an armed terrorist organisation.”[20]

On 28 September 2017, Mr. Erdoğan said the U.S. should exchange Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Gülen with Mr. Brunson, saying “You have a pastor too. Give him to us…. Then we will try [Brunson] and give him to you..

Mr. Brunson has denied the charges against him,

RelatedNews

VIDEO: What Bawa told Senate about himself

Facebook to invest $1bn in news industry

VIDEO: How missing Pharmacy admission made me into a passionate farmer -Chinonye

VIDEO: How we survived bandits’ attack, abduction — Kagara College Students

“I am not a member of an Islamic movement. I have never seen any member of FETÖ [the Gulen movement] in my life,” he said.

(Reuters/NAN)

  • WhatsApp
  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Telegram
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Pocket

Support PREMIUM TIMES' journalism of integrity and credibility

Good journalism costs a lot of money. Yet only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government.

For continued free access to the best investigative journalism in the country we ask you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavour.

By contributing to PREMIUM TIMES, you are helping to sustain a journalism of relevance and ensuring it remains free and available to all.

Donate


TEXT AD: To advertise here . Call Willie +2347088095401...


JOIN THE CONVERSATION

  • Disqus (0)
premiumtimes



PT Mag Campaign AD

Previous Post

Gunmen kill ‘25’ in fresh Plateau attack

Next Post

Katsina gets new chief judge

Agency Report

Agency Report

More News

DR Congo

Italian Ambassador, two others killed in DR Congo

February 22, 2021
The interior minister of Libya, Fathi Bashagha [PHOTO CREDIT: @fathi_bashagha]

Libyan interior minister survives assassination attempt in Tripoli

February 21, 2021
Coronavirus

UK govt. dealing with ‘Tsunami’ of COVID-19 misinformation – Minister

February 17, 2021
@BorisJohnson

End of lockdown: UK’s Johnson mulls path out after 15m vaccinated

February 15, 2021
Sample coronavirus test [PHOTO: Euronews] hospital COVID-19

About 40 % Peruvians contracted COVID-19, says Health Watchdog

February 15, 2021
Turkmenistani President, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov [PHOTO: WIKIPEDIA]

Turkmenistan’s president names son as deputy head of govt.

February 12, 2021
Next Post
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State

Katsina gets new chief judge

Nigeria's player Oghenekaro Etebo (8) celebrates the team's third goal against Japan during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s First Round Group B football match Nigeria vs Japan, at the Amazonia Arena in Manaus on August 4, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / RAPHAEL ALVES

Friendly rivalry pushing Super Eagles to excel in Russia - Etebo

Discussion about this post

Search

#EndSARS: Latest Updates




Polaris Bank


JAIZ Ad


NITDA Ad





Glo Ad

Subscribe to News via Email

Enter your email address and receive notifications of news by email.

Join 1,624,023 other subscribers.

Advertisement






netherland biz school Advert

Zenith Advert
ADVERTISEMENT

Our Digital Network

  • PT Hausa
  • Election Centre
  • Human Trafficking Investigation
  • Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • National Conference
  • Press Attack Tracker
  • PT Academy
  • Dubawa
  • LeaksNG
  • Campus Reporter

Resources

  • Oil & Gas Facts
  • List of Universities in Nigeria
  • LIST: Federal Unity Colleges in Nigeria
  • NYSC Orientation Camps in Nigeria
  • Nigeria’s Federal/States’ Budgets since 2005
  • Malabu Scandal Thread
  • World Cup 2018
  • Panama Papers Game
  • Our Digital Network
  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Projects
  • Data & Infographics
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Headline Stories
    • Top News
    • More News
    • Foreign
  • Investigations
  • Business
    • News Reports
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Analysis and Data
    • Business Specials
    • Opinion
    • Oil/Gas Reports
      • FAAC Reports
      • Revenue
  • Health
    • News Reports
    • Investigations
    • Data and Infographics
    • Health Specials
    • Features
    • Events
    • Primary Health Tracker
  • Agriculture
    • News Report
    • Research & Innovation
    • Data & Infographics
    • Special Reports/Features
    • Investigations
    • Interviews
    • Markets
  • Arts/Life
    • Arts/Books
    • Kannywood
    • Lifestyle
    • Music
    • Nollywood
    • Travel
  • Sports
    • Football
    • More Sports News
    • Sports Features
  • Projects
    • Panama Papers
    • Paradise Papers
    • Parliament Watch
    • AGAHRIN
  • Opinion
  • PT Hausa
  • The Membership Club
  • Dubawa
    • Dubawa NG
  • About Us
  • Advert Rates
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Store
  • DONATE

All content is Copyrighted © 2020 The Premium Times, Nigeria

Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.