US President Donald Trump personally asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month to release a Turkish woman
Washington Post report cites official ‘familiar’ with a failed deal in which US president personally asked Netanyahu to free suspected Hamas-collaborator Ebru Ozkan to secure release of US Pastor Andrew Brunson who has been detained in Turkey for 2 years.
US President Donald Trump personally asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month to release a Turkish woman suspected of helping Hamas who had been arrested during a visit to Israel, as part of a secret deal with Turkey to secure the release of a detained American pastor, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Israel released Ebru Ozkan after a judge ruled that the evidence against her was weak.
Trump reportedly struck a deal with Turkey that would see Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was arrested in October 2016 and stands accused of espionage, returned to the US in exchange for Israel’s release of Ozkan.