Yet another Bodyguards-in-brawl in US…

This was not the first time Erdoğan’s bodyguards got involved in a brawl in US. However, this seems to be the wildest one. The only rational explanation is that intended audiences are back in Turkey.  Turkish authorities have long lost caring about what Western audiences will think about.  They know they will somehow evade consequences but we, ordinary citizens will suffer in the long run…

 
President Erdoğan’s bodyguards have intervened in the scuffle erupted between protesters and Erdoğan supporters as Erdoğan went to the Turkish Embassy. Two people have been detained, nine others wounded.
The U.S. State Department has summoned Turkish Ambassador in Washington Serdar Kılıç on May 17 over a street brawl outside the Turkish diplomatic mission that erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel during President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit, sources have told the Hürriyet Daily News.
John McCain: Turkish ambassador should be ‘thrown out’ after violence

After brawl between Turkish security personnel and protesters near the ambassador’s Washington residence, senator says US should eject envoy

The US senator John McCain has called for Turkey’s ambassador to the US to be removed from the country following a brawl outside his Washington DC residence this week.

 

Nine people were hurt and two were detained during an altercation at the Turkish ambassador’s residence in the U.S. capital on May 16, authorities have said

State department ‘communicating concern’ to Turkish government after brawl between Turkish security personnel and protesters injured 11

The United States has said it was voicing its “strongest possible” concern to Turkey over a street brawl that erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel during Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Washington.

Germany is free to withdraw its troops stationed at Turkey’s İncirlik air base if it wants to, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 18, adding Berlin should change its attitude towards Ankara

‘Erdoğan’s bodyguards’ in violent clash with protesters in Washington DC

Nine people hurt and two arrests made during the altercation at the Turkish ambassador’s residence in the US capital

US President Trump and President Erdoğan met in person for the first time yesterday. Following the meeting that lasted 20 minutes the two leaders held a press conference.

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.

 

Violence erupts at Erdoğan protest in Washington DC – video

The Armenian National Committee of America has captured scenes of violent protests on the streets of Washington, DC after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Trump at the White House. According to witnesses, the brawl erupted when the Turkish president’s security detail attacked protesters carrying the flag of the Kurdish PYD party outside the residence.

 

Berlin could move its soldiers to another country from Turkey such as Jordan if Ankara does not grant permission to members of the German parliament’s defense committee to visit staff currently serving at a NATO mission İncirlik Air Base, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said
More than 400 Turkish state officials are seeking asylum in Germany. Despite Ankara insisting these applications be denied, Berlin has granted protection to military personnel in a number of cases. EURACTIV’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

What a TV Series Tells Us About Erdogan’s Turkey

A tale of medieval warfare against Christians captures the mood of nationalism and revisionism in Turkey.

Cumhuriyet.com.tr Editor-in-Chief Detained

Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet daily’s online website Oğuz Güven has been taken into custody.
Even the pope’s request that arrested German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel be pardoned cannot help him, Turkey’s ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçacı, said

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