{"id":19827,"date":"2017-05-17T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=19827"},"modified":"2017-05-17T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:09:59","slug":"pro-erdogan-group-attacks-peaceful-protesters-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=19827","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Erdogan Group Attacks Peaceful Protesters in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (A.W.)\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dA group of peaceful demonstrators protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s official visit to the United States, were attacked by pro-Erdogan groups at the Sheridan Circle near the residence of the Turkish Ambassador to the U.S.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 939px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/armenianweekly.com\/2017\/05\/16\/breaking-pro-erdogan-group-attacks-peaceful-protesters-in-d-c\/attaack\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56362\" src=\"http:\/\/armenianweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/attaack-1024x552.png\" width=\"939\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scenes from the aftermath of the attack (Photos: Screenshots of the ANCA live stream\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093[This was] the type of violence you would never expect to see in America\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s capital. It was the type of violence you\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7d expect to see in Erdogan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Turkey and in other dictatorships,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d said Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian, who captured parts of the attack and streamed the aftermath live on the ANCA\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Facebook page. \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093This is the very type of intolerance that has come to predominate in Turkey and it has now been exported here,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fancagrassroots%2Fvideos%2F10154764949971859%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which began at Lafayette Square at noon, was organized by a coalition of organizations, including the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and the American Hellenic Council. Several different groups, which included representatives from the Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, Yezidi, and Assyrian communities, participated in the protest, while President Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump a the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093I saw a group of peaceful protesters in Sheridan Circle\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009da grassy area across from the Turkish Ambassador\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s residence\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dwho were protesting and exercising their constitutional right to speak their minds, to hold signs, to share their opinions, and express their views get rushed from across the street by a group of a pro-Erdogan [demonstrators], who broke through the police lines and attacked literally anybody within their reach with their fists and anything else they could get a hold of,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d Hamparian said in the live video moments after the attack. Hamparian went on to explain that the crowd of Erdogan supporters beat as many people as they could and that many were bloodied and had to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093This is exactly the type of violence you see in Ankara and they are exporting it here. It\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s one thing for the Turkish government to do that to its own citizens\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009d[which is] a terrible thing. It is another thing for us, as Americans, to see that exported to the United States,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d Hamparian said.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian Weekly will be following this story and provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WASHINGTON (A.W.)\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dA group of peaceful demonstrators protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s official visit to the United States, were attacked by pro-Erdogan groups at the Sheridan Circle near the residence of the Turkish Ambassador to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=19827\" title=\"Pro-Erdogan Group Attacks Peaceful Protesters in D.C.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}