{"id":20845,"date":"2018-11-02T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20845"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:23:38","slug":"turkey-us-lift-sanctions-on-officials-after-pastors-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20845","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, US lift sanctions on officials after pastor’s release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey has lifted sanctions on two top Unites States officials, in a move that came minutes after Washington removed two Turkish ministers from its sanctions list.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday the sanctions on Secretary of Homeland Security\u00a0<\/span>Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General\u00a0<\/span>Jeff Sessions, which included a travel ban into the country and freezing of assets in Turkey, had been lifted in response to the earlier\u00a0US<\/a> move.<\/p>\n

The US had imposed sanctions on Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu in August over the detention of pastor Andrew Brunson<\/a>, who was released last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old evangelical pastor was convicted of terror-related charges and sentenced to three years, one month and 15 days in jail by a Turkish court in October.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But Brunson was immediately freed, taking into account the time already served and good conduct during the trial.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Friction over Brunson’s case caused a crisis in relations between the two NATO allies.<\/p>\n

With Washington slapping sanctions on Ankara, the crisis also sparked a crash in the Turkish lira in August that exposed Turkey’s economic fragility.<\/p>\n

Officials from Turkey’s central bank also dramatically rose interest rates in September, which helped lift the Turkish currency.<\/p>\n

These diffused tensions with Washington have also helped stabilise the lira, and by extension, the Turkish economy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Ankara, said Turkey had undergone a period “tough” period during which the lira lost “more than double” its value against the US dollar, but after Brunson’s release “we saw there was a softening” in US-Turkish relations which has “been welcomed by the markets”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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