A couple of hours after President Trump welcomed Turkish President Erdogan to the White House on Tuesday, the visitor’s security detail roughed up a group of protestors outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence. Eleven were injured, including a DC police officer.

The skirmish was an illuminating microcosm of the thuggish dictatorship Turkey is becoming under Erdogan, who has been putting his foot on the gas as he drives his country toward authoritarian Islamism.

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