Anger over the thuggish behavior of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security guards who brutally assaulted protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington shows no sign of abating as more US lawmakers call for the administration to take action against them.
In a letter dated May 19 addressed to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on behalf of 28 members of the House, Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democratic representative for New York’s 12th congressional district, said that the Turkish security guards should be “arrested, prosecuted and jailed.” Maloney noted that the guards had “kicked men and women crouched on the ground and disregarded numerous commands by police to cease and desist.”
