President Trump should expel the Turkish ambassador from the U.S. for what happened last week when security goons for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan savage attacked and beat U.S. citizens in the streets of Washington peacefully protesting the increasingly Islamo-fascist rule over his country.
Simple, quiet, back-channel diplomatic rebukes are not enough to deal with this kind of attack conducted on our nation's soil.
The shocking incident, captured on videotape, occurred when Erdogan got to the Turkish ambassador's home on Embassy Row in Northwest Washington after meeting with President Trump.
A small group of mostly Turkish-Americans, many of them American citizens, began peacefully protesting the presence of Erdogan, who has cracked down on civil liberties in his country, with thousands of dissidents arrested, purged secular military leaders and spread terror throughout Turkey in his grab for more power.
Videotapes show Erdogan watching the protest from his car and appearing to instruct his presidential security guards to attack the demonstrators who posed no threat to him.
Washington police jumped in to subdue the attackers but not before they beat the demonstrators with their fists and clubs, kicking them while they lie on the ground.
It's not unusual for Erdogan to beat, gas and arrest peaceful protesters in his own country where he demands the absolute loyalty of a tyrannical Islamist despot.
The official Turkish government "news agency" Anadolu confirmed the unprovoked attack, reporting: "Police did not heed Turkish demands to intervene," so the guards were ordered to move in to disperse them.
The police didn't "heed" those demands to break up a peaceful protest, of course, because those protests were legal, protected under the First Amendment – something Erdogan is obviously incapable of understanding. Again, he even watched the attack approvingly.
Several Americans were hospitalized with injuries from the attack, including at least one woman with a concussion. Others were covered in blood.
Even more outrageous, this week Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to scold him because D.C. police intervened to try and stop the bodyguards' beat-down of American protesters.
Erdogan should not be allowed back in the U.S. until he humbly apologizes for the attack and pays for all medical treatments and civil claims by the injured protesters. It's bad enough he gets away with murder in his own country, but someone – namely President Trump – needs to teach this tyrant a lesson that you don't beat up dissidents on U.S. soil, especially in our nation's capital.
Erdogan is a growing threat to the entire world. He is building a Hitleresque cult of personality in his own country, with his security forces there arresting citizens who are never heard from again. He is waging war against ethnic Kurds in Turkey, aiding terrorists throughout the U.S. and interfering in the affairs of neighboring countries.
He has betrayed his nation's own constitution, which secularized governance after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I. But Erdogan dreams of re-creating the Caliphate and extending brutal Turkish rule over the entire Islamic world.
Turkey has a shameful history of conducting genocide against Christian Armenia and barbarous imperialistic rule over Arabia – all the while denying these well-documented facts and blaming the victims.
America got a little taste of how this works last week in Washington, D.C. – and a strong official rebuke from the U.S. government is called for.
I was shocked and embarrassed that this was permitted to happen here without Erdogan and his goon squad being detained. Sometimes "diplomatic immunity" goes too far. And this is a striking example of just that.
This man represents an affront to peace, stability, decency, civility, the rule of law and American values. Somebody needs to stand up to him. And that someone should be Donald Trump.
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