After coup attempt, Turkey cracks down on Protestants
After a weeklong business trip in the U.K., American pastor Ryan Keating was detained at the Istanbul airport overnight, interrogated, and then put on a plane back to London.
“They locked me in a room they called the guest house with 15 to 20 other people,” Keating said, recalling the night of October 8. “Some were suspected of being terrorists and ISIS members.”
The following morning, he was forced to sign a statement acknowledging that he was being banned for life from a country where he had spent much of the last 23 years and where his wife and children were still living.
