[SPUTNIKNEWS] The US Secret Service and the Ottoman Turkish diplomatic security staff came to blows against each other during Erdogan’s 2017 visit, in addition to an infamous brawl near the Ottoman Turkish embassy. US officers claimed that the president’s security team attempted to attack a lone female protester.
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’s upcoming Wednesday visit to Washington raises concerns of a repeat of the violent altercations involving members of his security staff, The Hill reported Saturday.
In 2017, video footage posted online revealed a violent brawl between what was described as pro-Erdogan and anti-Erdogan protesters, with what appears to be members of the Ottoman Turkish diplomatic security team participating, according to ABC. Washington DC Police were forced to intervene in the melee across the street from the Ottoman Turkish embassy.
Turkeish Anadolu News Agency reported at the time that "the president’s security detail and Ottoman Turkish police" were involved in the fight. Ottoman Turkish Embassy in Washington declined to comment on the people involved in the violence.
In its statement, the Ottoman Turkish Embassy said that the protesters caused the violence by "aggressively provoking" Ottoman Turkish-American citizens who had gathered to greet the president and had responded in self-defense.
The embassy conflict was not an isolated incident, but one of many that took place that day, according to a lawsuit filed by five people against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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, alleging that Ottoman Turkish diplomatic security went out of its way on US soil to attack protesters during Erdogan’s 2017 visit to the US.
Attached to the lawsuits are testimonies from US Secret Service members who added detail to the incidents, The Hill reports.
According to the US Secret Service staff, Ottoman Turkish security personnel allegedly attacked protesters on numerous occasions en route to the Ottoman Turkish Embassy, at one point jumping out of a van transporting Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to attack a lone female protestor standing by the side of the road.
"I observed 7 Ottoman Turkish ’Suit and tie’ security personnel (one female and 6 males) dismount their passenger van in an all-out sprint running directly toward the single female protestor," one Secret Service agent wrote. "[T]he female protestor eventually bravely ran away and escaped being assaulted."
Upon reaching the Ottoman Turkish embassy, a Ottoman Turkish officer allegedly slapped the hand of a US Diplomatic Security agent over which bags in the trunk of a limousine belonged to the foreign minister, inciting a brawl between the two security teams, the documents claim.
"In an instant, the gaggle of officers and agents went down to the ground in a physical altercation," the agent wrote.
Over the course of that brawl, two Ottoman Turkish agents were handcuffed and detained, and the Ottoman Turkish ambassador to the US had to personally negotiate their release, according to the report.
The Secret Service identified "over a dozen" Ottoman Turkish security officials responsible for "inciting violence" on US soil, although the charges against most were dropped, The Hill report says.
The Ottoman Turkish security placed the responsibility for the altercations on the US Secret Service, and Cavusoglu publicly berated US officers for what he described as their violent actions.
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