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Friday, May 19, 2017

TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN'S THUG BODYGUARDS BEAT UP YAZIDI, KURD, ARMENIAN PROTESTORS AT WASHINGTON EMBASSY DURING MEETING WITH TRUMP

 Erdogan Watches as His Goons Attacked Protesters 

Published on May 18, 2017
Footage posted Thursday afternoon by Voice of America Turkish on its Facebook page shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan watching the brutal attack Tuesday by his bodyguards on protesters in front of the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in Washington.
Published on May 18, 2017
New VOA video shows Turkish President Erdogan at the Turkish Embassy in Washington watching Tuesday’s violent clash. The protest was taking place across the street from the embassy, and led to 11 people being injured and two arrested. U.S. Senators McCain and Feinstein wrote a letter of complaint to Erdogan about his guards’ actions.
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TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN'S THUG BODYGUARDS BEAT UP YAZIDI, KURD, ARMENIAN PROTESTORS AT WASHINGTON EMBASSY

Nine (+) injured as Erdoğan’s bodyguards violently attack Kurdish protesters in DC

BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
According to witnesses, a brawl erupted when Erdoğan’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence.
This is a sign of what is to come. When Islamic supremacists are emboldened, their violence increases. Erdoğan has become emboldened recently — even more so since emerging victorious in a referendum that significantly broadened his powers:
The Turkish republic has always been flawed, but it always contained the aspiration that – against the backdrop of the principles to which successive constitutions claimed fidelity – it could become a democracy. Erdoğan’s new Turkey closes off that prospect.
The jihadist dictator Erdoğan is bent on expanding his powers both inside and outside Turkey. Erdoğan’s temper recently flared against Europe when several European governments refused “to allow his ministers to rally Turkish expatriates.” He also declared that “Europe is collapsing…Europe will pay for what they have done in humiliating and oppressing Turks”; and in response to a European headscarf ban in the workplace, he accused Europe of starting “a clash between the cross and the crescent.”
Now he is so bold as to allow his thugs to behave violently on American soil.

“’Erdoğan’s bodyguards’ in violent clash with protesters in Washington DC”, Guardian, May 17, 2017:
Nine people were hurt and two arrests were made during an altercation at the Turkish ambassador’s residence in the US capital during a visit by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
According to witnesses, a brawl erupted when Erdoğan’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence. A local NBC television affiliate reported Erdoğan was inside the building at the time.
Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said the altercation broke out between two groups but he didn’t elaborate on the circumstances. He said two people were arrested, including one who was charged with assaulting a police officer.
“All of the sudden they just ran towards us,” Yazidi Kurd demonstrator Lucy Usoyan told ABC, adding that she was attacked by a pro-Erdoğan supporter.
“Someone was beating me in the head nonstop, and I thought, ‘Okay, I’m on the ground already, what is the purpose to beat me?’”
The altercation came the same day that Erdoğan met Donald Trump at the White House. The State Department declined to comment.
Earlier Trump and Erdoğan had stood side by side at the White House and promised to strengthen strained ties despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning about Washington’s arming of a Kurdish militia.
Fresh from securing his grip on Turkey with a referendum to enhance his powers, Erdoğan came to the Oval Office with complaints about US support for Kurdish fighters and what Ankara says is Washington’s harbouring of the mastermind of a failed coup.
But both leaders also tried to put a brave face on their differences and to renew a key alliance between Nato’s leading power and its biggest Muslim member, partners in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
“It is absolutely unacceptable to take the YPG-PYD into consideration as partners in the region, and it’s going against a global agreement we reached,” Erdoğan said, referring to the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in Syria.
“In the same way, we should never allow those groups who want to change the ethnic or religious structures in the region to use terrorism as a pretext,” he added…..
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VIDEOS OF ERDOGAN'S THUG BODYGUARDS BEATING UP KURD & ARMENIAN PROTESTORS 
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: 
11 INJURED DURING TRUMP-ERDOGAN MEETING