As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was set to deliver a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, protests erupted, resulting in violence.
As demonstrators gathered in the US capital to protest Erdogan’s authoritarian policies, Turkish security personnel reportedly kicked one protestor, a woman was thrown to the sidewalk, and one journalist was physically removed from the site.
Gathered on the sidewalks, protesters chanted “Erdogan, terrorist.”
“The situation is a bit out of control,” a US Secret Service agent told Foreign Policy.
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