This past July I wrote about the plight of pastor Andrew Brunson who had been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey since October of 2016.  Brunson was jailed after being scooped up in a crackdown of Turkish President Erdogan’s political opponents in the wake of an attempted coup.  He lost fifty pounds

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in those areas would be eliminated. Turkey, which has backed some rebel groups in Syria, has been working with Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar