US pastor Andrew Brunson's lawyer challenges Turkish jail sentence, reports Anadolu

The lawyer for U.S. evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson applied to a Turkish court to challenge the jail sentence his client received last week, saying the verdict contravened the law and procedures, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.

Brunson was at the centre of a bitter diplomatic row between Ankara and Washington. He was sentenced to more than three years on terrorism charges on Friday but was allowed to return to the United States.