More than three weeks after the crisis started, the pastor, Andrew Brunson, is still under house arrest in Turkey. Turkey has also received timely displays of support from foreign allies that have undermined the Trump administration’s effort to isolate it. The feud has been costly for Turkey, pushing its currency, the lira, to record lows against the dollar. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, Emine, greet supporters of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara on Saturday. And it might not even be an economic crisis, but economic warfare by the United States,” he said.

Source: Washington Post August 20, 2018 00:11 UTC