{"id":43169,"date":"2017-08-30T05:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43169"},"modified":"2017-08-30T05:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:52:02","slug":"19-including-turkish-security-indicted-for-attacking-protesters-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/19-including-turkish-security-indicted-for-attacking-protesters-in-dc.html","title":{"rendered":"19, including Turkish security, indicted for attacking protesters in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">19, including Turkish security, indicted for attacking protesters in DC<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">19, including Turkish security, indicted for attacking protesters in DC:- Nineteen people, including 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s security detail, have been indicted for attacking protesters during Erdogan&#8217;s visit to Washington, D.C., in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The charges, dealt by a grand jury in D.C., detail the incident in which the defendants attacked the peaceful demonstrators outside of the Turkish embassy. All 19 are charged with conspiracy to commit a crime of violence, a felony punishable by a statutory maximum of 15 years in prison, according to the Associated Press. Several face additional charges of assault with a deadly weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Two were arrested in June, and the rest remain at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In July, the House voted to nix a deal that would arm Erdogan&#8217;s security detail with American weapons as punishment for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Erdogan&#8217;s team was in the process of buying approximately 1,600 semi-automatic sidearms from a New Hampshire-based gun company, a deal the State Department provisionally approved in May. Days later, Erdogan&#8217;s security team assaulted protesters outside the Turkish embassy following Erdogan&#8217;s meeting with President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/19-including-turkish-security-indicted-for-attacking-protesters-in-dc\/article\/2632903<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/19-including-turkish-security-indicted-for-attacking-protesters-in-dc.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19, including Turkish security, indicted for attacking protesters in DC 19, including Turkish security, indicted for attacking protesters in DC:- Nineteen people, including 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s security detail, have been indicted for attacking protesters during Erdogan&#8217;s visit to Washington, D.C., in May. 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