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dalton99a

(81,570 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 11:10 PM Jun 2017

Erdogan's bodyguards have been beating up people around the world. Here's how to stop them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/08/erdogans-bodyguards-have-been-beating-up-people-around-the-world-heres-how-to-stop-them/

Erdogan’s bodyguards have been beating up people around the world. Here’s how to stop them.
By Haykaram Nahapetyan | June 8

Last month’s scuffle between Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security personnel and protesters at Washington’s Sheridan Circle was just another ring in the chain of skirmishes outside Turkey that have involved the Turkish president’s security people. Other incidents have not been as massive, but the continuing impunity contributes to the violence. On Tuesday, the House unanimously voted to pass a resolution that condemned the attack by Erdogan’s bodyguards. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said during the hearings: “A similar incident occurred about a half dozen years ago at the United Nations. Same head of state. Same thugs attacking peaceful protesters. Last year … there was an attack on journalists outside of the Brookings [Institution]. So, if we don’t tell them it’s time to stop, they will persist — that is for sure.”

Indeed, in 2011, when Erdogan visited New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly session, his bodyguards quarreled with U.N. security personnel. At least one U.N. security officer’s injuries required emergency medical treatment. Then-Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman Martin Nesirky called it part of “some unfortunate misunderstandings.”

In 2015, Erdogan’s guards got into a fight with Belgian police at Brussels’s Place Stéphanie. The next day, the two sides clashed again at Val Duchesse Chateau over whose job it was to check the rooms Erdogan was to visit.

Last year, Erdogan’s aggressive personnel were involved in violent incidents in Latin America as well. In Ecuador, his security team reportedly attacked Kurdish protesters and those who supported them. They attacked and broke the nose of Ecuadoran National Assembly member Diego Vintimilla.

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Erdogan's bodyguards have been beating up people around the world. Here's how to stop them. (Original Post) dalton99a Jun 2017 OP
Have him visit an open carry state GulfCoast66 Jun 2017 #1

GulfCoast66

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1. Have him visit an open carry state
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 11:44 PM
Jun 2017

Bet that would cool their jets.

I saw them film from Washington.

Unlike some DUer's I am a second amendment guy. If someone a was attacking me that viscously(kicking in the head) totally unprovoked, I would exercise my right to self defense.

Liberal does not mean pacifist.

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