Updated 1:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Turkish government and Washington’s mayor are trading blame for violence outside the country’s embassy, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security staff moved in to break up an anti-government protest.
Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency labels the protesters Kurdish “supporters of terror.” It says they chanted anti-Erdogan slogans as the president entered the embassy on Tuesday after meeting with President Donald Trump. It says Erdogan’s security team moved in to disperse the protesters because “police did not heed to Turkish demands to intervene.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that the “violent attack on a peaceful demonstration” is an affront to “our rights as Americans.
Emergency officials say nine people were injured. Police say two men are facing charges and they intend to pursue charges against others involved.
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This is absolutely outrageous. Trump is like a virus proliferating in America’s operating system.
These are foreign thugs attacking American citizens – and police officers.
Where is Trump’s outrage?
Where are the howls of protest from Sessions and the “law and order” crowd?
Where are Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, and the rest of the America Firsters?
The suits are Erdogan’s SS, and the ones in paramilitary uniforms appear to be some sort of Brownshirts.
This is the face of fascism: kicking peaceful protesters in the face as they lay helpless on the ground.
This is what Vlad, Trump, and the GOP base crave.
This is where Fox wants to take America.
Pay special attention to the overturned baby stroller amid the blood and carnage.
Republican hearts must swell with pride at how a “real leader” like Erdogan handles things…
I can’t believe the police didn’t shoot a single person. The f^cking Turkish thugs were openly beating on people lying helpless on the ground and not a single one was shot. At the very least they should have been arrested. I’d be happy with a public hanging.
Although it’s not mentioned in this story, Erdoğan was inside the Turkish embassy when this happened. The brawl erupted when Erdoğan’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence.
Seems like a pretty good likelihood he probably sicced his thugs on them.
Says a lot about the quality of Comrade Cockholster’s “friends,” of which he has less and less every day.
“There are only so many dictators [Trump] can invite to the White House to pal around with,” said Joy Reid last night on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.