*ANKARA – The spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammedwhat he said was the United States´ disregard for Turkey´s legal process,adding Washington had made arbitrary comments and demands in the case of adetained pastor.*
Ibrahim Kalin called on the United States to respect Turkey´s judicialindependence, one of Ankara´s most pointed responses yet to criticism overits detention of evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Brunson.
“There is rule of law in Turkey and the Andrew Brunson case is a legalissue.
There is an ongoing legal process related to this individual,” Kalin saidin a statement to Reuters.
“It goes without saying that we find unacceptable the disregard of thelegal process by the United States, which has been making certain demands.