The United States has removed two Turkish government ministers from the global Magnitsky Act sanctions list, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced Nov. 2.
The U.S. had announced the sanctions targeting Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül and Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu over the arrest of U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson in August.
Turkey had retaliated by imposing similar sanctions against the attorney general and interior secretary of the U.S. administration.
A Turkish government source who spoke to Hürriyet said Turkey simultaneously removed the sanctions with the U.S. on Nov. 2.
Brunson was sentenced to more than three years for aiding terrorist organizations by a court in the western province of İzmir last month but was allowed to return to the U.S.
