ISTANBUL—Turkey’s battered lira weakened 4 percent on Aug. 17 after a Turkish court rejected an American pastor’s appeal for release, drawing a stiff rebuke from President Donald Trump who said the United States would not take his detention “sitting down.”
The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Christian missionary from North Carolina who has lived in Turkey for two decades, has become a flashpoint of tension between Washington and Ankara and has accelerated a currency crisis that has ricocheted through global financial markets.
