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Tensions have soared between the United States and NATO ally, Turkey, after the Trump administration leveled economic sanctions on two high-level Turkish ministers for the continued captivity of American pastor Andrew Brunson.

The US Treasury implemented the sanctions under the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act which allows the US to sanction foreign officials implicated in human rights abuses.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told journalists both ministers had "played leading roles in the arrest and detention of Pastor Brunson", who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir.

The Turkish foreign ministry warned that the move "will greatly damage constructive efforts" to solve outstanding issues and told Washington it would retaliate.

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