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A DC grand jury returned indictments against 15 Turkish security officials and four other individuals Tuesday on charges of attacking protesters during an incident outside the Turkish ambassador's residence on May 16, 2017. The violence took place during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to the US.
CNN previously reported that nine people were injured in the melee, though witness and Turkish authorities have offered conflicting accounts of who was involved and who was to blame. All defendants were also indicted with "bias crime enhancements" -- referring to hate crimes -- to the charges.
The Turkish embassy says the protesters were affiliated with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), which is a designated terror group in Turkey, the US and Europe, and has been engaged in a 30-year conflict with the Turkish government. Turkey alleges the protesters "began aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefully assembled to greet the President." In June, DC Police Chief Peter Newsham said that "there's no indication at all that the protesters were a terrorist group."
Previously: Violence at Turkish Embassy in Washington
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:10PM (1 child)
You do realize that the hegemony isn't just "The United States", don't you? It is actually the US/UK/British Commonwealth countries, with a helluva lotta assistance from western Europe. Basically, NATO. If it were JUST the US, things might be pretty crappy, but they wouldn't be what they are. Let's remember who toppled the Ottoman. And, on whose behalf the US ran their coup on Iran.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:26PM
Yes, I do realize that the rest of NATO has something to do with that pattern. However, since NATO largely goes the way the US goes, I don't see them as all that separate.
Also, other NATO countries don't have presidents publicly admiring and shielding from prosecution people like Henry Kissinger who regularly put forward the idea that war crimes are just fine.
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