{"id":308695,"date":"2017-05-18T06:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-condemns-erdogan-guards-attack-on-washington-protesters\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T06:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T05:46:38","slug":"us-condemns-erdogan-guards-attack-on-washington-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-condemns-erdogan-guards-attack-on-washington-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"US condemns Erdogan guards\u2019 attack on Washington protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US State Department has condemned a violent confrontation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s bodyguards and protesters in Washington, DC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are communicating our concern to the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cViolence is never an appropriate response to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown erupted earlier in the day, when protesters gathered outside the Turkish ambassador\u2019s residence, where Erdogan was staying after meeting with his American counterpart Donald Trump at the White House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The peaceful protests turned into violent clashes when a group of Erdogan\u2019s supporters taunted the first group and attacked them.<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated after Erdogan\u2019s guards and other Turkish security personnel interfered and violently beat the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>DC Police said at least 11 people were injured and two arrests were made during the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/18\/522307\/US-Turkey-Erdogan-Washington-Trump-PKK\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has condemned a violent confrontation between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s bodyguards and protesters in Washington, DC. &#8220;We are communicating our concern to the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cViolence is never an appropriate response to free speech.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}