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Pastor’s return helps reset US-Turkey relations

By PAN MENGQI | China Daily | Updated: 2018-10-15 23:53
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Pastor Andrew Brunson prays for US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. [Photo/IC]

A United States pastor held for two years in Turkey arrived home on Saturday and sat down with US President Donald Trump, who signaled an easing in the diplomatic crisis sparked by the case.

Analysts, though, said that while the release is expected to ease tensions in bilateral dis-putes, a rocky path still lies ahead for a full diplomatic recovery.

Brunson was on Friday sen-tenced to jail for three years and 45 days on terror charges, but was then set free as the Turkish court said he would not serve any further time because he had already been detained since October 2016.

Trump repeatedly thanked Turkish President Recep Tayy-ip Erdogan for his help in the case. “It’s not an easy situation for Turkey either. They had a lot of difficult situations going on and I do want to thank President Erdogan for making this possible,” Trump said.

The pastor’s case has wor-sened relations between the two NATO allies as a deal to free Brunson fell apart in August and Trump authorized a doubling of duties on alumi-num and steel imported from Turkey in return, helping drive the lira currency down sharply against the dollar.

Trump did not pledge to lift the sanctions but said he wel-comed an end to the “harsh relationship” the countries had over the past two months.

The decision is expected to ease the diplomatic standoff between Ankara and Wash-ington, said Wang Jin, a Chi-nese expert researcher at the Northwest University and Charhar Institute.

He said the Brunson case was a test for bilateral ties and now that it has been resolved, Turkey and the US will ulti-mately try to restore their damaged partnership.

US administration officials have said the release of Bruns-on would be a significant step toward a reconciliation between Ankara and Wash-ington. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Wash-ington that “it is the right thing for them to do, it is the humanitarian thing for Tur-key to do”, adding that the release of Brunson would be “an important step” for US--Turkish relations.

Although the Brunson case is at an end, analysts said there are still several sore points between the NATO partners, including their differences regarding the Syrian war and the US sanctions.

Serkan Demirtas, a political analyst and journalist, believes the release will defi-nitely infuse a breath of fresh air into bilateral relations and have a positive effect, accord-ing to Xinhua News Agency.

“It will open the way for oth-er issues to be discussed and possibly resolved in a spirit of dialogue like what it was before the Brunson crisis,” Demirtas said, adding that communica-tion channels shut down by the US side on political, military and financial matters are now expected to be reopened.

Xinhua contributed to this story.

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