Accomplices of Erdogan guards sentenced to prison for DC attack

By Steven Nelson

Published April 5, 2018 7:54pm ET

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Accomplices of Erdogan guards sentenced to prison for DC attack — Turkish President Recep Erdogan was scheduled to deliver an address on free speech Thursday at the Brookings Institution. Before he even spoke a word, however, his security team harassed and physically assaulted several reporters, some of whom they managed to remove forcibly from the scheduled event. (Kayhan Ozer, Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP) | Kayhan Ozer

Two men were sentenced to one year and a day in prison Thursday for joining more than a dozen Turkish security officers who broke through a police line in May 2017 to attack protesters as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan watched.

The sentences may be the only ones ever handed down for what D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham called an “unprovoked and brutal attack on peaceful protesters,” after U.S. officials allowed other assailants to leave the country.

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