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Change of Turkish prosecutor in U.S. pastor case may be positive signal: lawyer

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The replacement of the main prosecutor in the trial of an American pastor in Turkey may be a positive change, the lawyer for the clergyman told Reuters on Thursday, though he said it would be wrong to expect it to herald his release.

The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical pastor, who has lived in Turkey for decades and is being tried on terrorism charges, has been at the center of a bitter row between NATO allies Washington and Ankara.

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