US slaps sanctions on Turkey justice, interior ministers over detained pastor

The US Treasury Department on Wednesday hit Turkey's justice and interior ministers with sanctions over the case of an American pastor being tried on terror charges."We believe he's a victim of unfair and unjust attention by the government of Turkey," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told journalists, referring to Andrew Brunson, an American pastor at the center of a bitter diplomatic spat between NATO allies Washington and Ankara.Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of I