Andrew Brunson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American pastor
Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1968
Place of Birth: Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States
Profession: pastor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Andrew Brunson
- Andrew Craig Brunson (born January 3, 1968) is an American pastor and a teaching elder of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
- Brunson was arrested in Turkey, where he had lived since the mid-1990s, in October 2016 during the purges occurring after the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt against Recep Tayyip Erdogan (along with the arrests of tens of thousands of Turkish military personnel, civil servants, educators, academics, dissidents, and journalists).
- In 2019, Brunson published a memoir about his ordeal.
- Brunson is an evangelical pastor of the Izmir Resurrection Church, a small Protestant church with about 25 congregants.
- T-Online describes the church as having been held in a room in a tenement. On September 28, 2017, Erdogan unsuccessfully proposed exchanging Brunson for Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic preacher accused of supporting the coup attempt from his exile in the United States.
- On July 26, 2018, US Vice President Pence called on Erdogan to release Brunson or face significant sanctions.
- On August 1, 2018, the U.S.
- Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on two top Turkish government officials who were involved in the detention of Brunson, Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.
- On August 9, Donald Trump raised tariffs on Turkish products.
- Erdogan followed with tariffs on US products. On October 12, 2018, Brunson was convicted, by Turkish authorities, on the charge of aiding terrorism, but sentenced to time served.
- He was released from Turkish custody and immediately returned to the United States.
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