Threatening language will not benefit anyone: Erdogan
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ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says that the threatening language of the United States will not benefit anyone.
Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Erdogan said Turkey would not make compromises regarding the independence of the judiciary.
He also said the remarks of the evangelist; Zionist mentality in the United States was unacceptable.
He added his foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, would hold talks with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Singapore.
Relations between the two NATO allies have spiraled into a full-blown crisis due to trial of Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, who was held for 21 months in a Turkish prison until his transfer to house arrest last week
Washington dismissed this move as insufficient.
Erdogan's remarks come a day after a Turkish court rejected an appeal for Brunson to be released from house arrest during his trial on terrorism charges.
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