Trump appearing before evangelicals as Turkey policy imperils Kurd-protected Christians

Published October 12, 2019 4:00am ET



When President Trump speaks at the Values Voter Summit dinner in Washington on Saturday evening, he will be addressing a core constituency that helped him win the White House.

But as he presents a Cost of Discipleship Award to Andrew Brunson, the pastor whose 24-month detention in Turkey became a religious freedom cause célèbre, he will inadvertently highlight a growing source of anger for his audience of evangelical Christians.

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