ICC Note:

After months in a Turkish prison, American pastor Andrew Brunson continues to be held by the Turkish government on trumped up terrorism charges.  Regardless of continued possibilities of persecution, his wife Norine took the trip to the Turkish capital with hopes of meeting with America’s top diplomat. A meeting was finally held and statements suggest that the meeting was a step in the right direction for freeing Brunson.

4/2/2017 Turkey (Daily Caller) – Norine Brunson, the wife of an American pastor jailed on bogus terrorism charges in Turkey, had little hope of meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara this week. But the North Carolina native flew to the Turkish capital city anyway because she already had a plane ticket, and Andrew, her husband, had told her that he felt that God had told him she would meet America’s top diplomat.

And it turned out that he was right.

“On Monday, Andrew told me he felt the Lord had said I would meet with Sec of State Tillerson. On Tuesday, I was told by the embassy and another senator that the meeting would NOT happen. I decided to come to Ankara anyway and arrived last night,” Norine Brunson wrote on Facebook Thursday, just after she met for 20 minutes with Tillerson.

Tillerson, a former CEO at ExxonMobil, had shown no indication that he would meet with Brunson. His only scheduled event was with Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

…

[Full Story]