Turkey’s battered lira weakened more than 6 percent against the dollar on Friday, Aug. 17, after a U.S. warning that Ankara should expect more economic sanctions unless it hands over the detained American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson.
Brunson, called a “great patriot hostage” by President Donald Trump, has spent the better part of the past two years in Turkish prisons or other forms of detention, over alleged links to outlawed political groups.
