US Marines Assaulted In Turkey

Two marines were attacked by a nationalist group in Turkey yesterday. The two marines were wearing plain clothes when a group of 15 restrained them and placed a bag over their heads. The group was chanting “Yankee go home” in the video. Other marines intervened and broke up the assault. They are ok and the group has been arrested by Turkish police. The group released a statement saying “US soldiers, who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians on their hands, cannot dirty our country. Every time you step into these lands, we will welcome you as you deserve!" The Marines were there as part of a port visit. Turkey is supposedly a NATO ally which makes this incident troubling. While Turkish authorities immediately took responsibility and arrested those responsible, it just adds to the laundry list of issues between the rest of the alliance and Turkey.

#usa #america #turkey

[boagrius]

This is peak irony coming from any turk

[FunkPunks]

the irony is crazy turkeys past filled with genocides of Kurds and Armenians

[Shuturulsdad]

Turks being against genocide while not taking responsibility for their own is peak irony

[thesunking]

They shouldn't be talking, considering how many genocides Turkey committed just last century alone

[ItzCoopzFtw]

Turkey may be in NATO. But it was never an ally.

[johnmartin]

Remember the Ottoman Empire? Yeah, your nations history is already dirtied.

[Moonuuu]

Turkey talk about killings is most irony

[JustAStronzoOnYT]

Those two Marines have a lot of discipline to not fight back, but I got a feeling if they did, they'll face backlash from defending themselves. Second to none 🇺🇸

[tahyang]

Just sounds like turkey doesn't want to be a NATO member anymore

[nerdlingeeksly]

I don't see any turks offering to bring the Palestinians to their country

[xjdjaws]

We should’ve never thrown the Kurds under the bus

[SupremeRTS]

Wonder if russia is involved? They've been pissed at turkey for abandoning s400 and helping ukraine, and russia is known for supporting far right movements in western countries and in africa as well.

[twayneusmc]

Turkey been asking for a slap for years honestly

[forrestbryant]

Turkey is not on our team and never really have been.

[Canute_]

Turks just conveniently forgetting about their own bloody past with even a genocide under their belt.

[lokikinch]

Its wild to me that we still have Turkey in NATO.

[Notmyrealnamenumbers]

Reading about ww1

Learned about how turkey genocided, or worked towards the genocide, of the armenian people

Turkey still declines this ever happened.

I guess millions of armenians just disapeared for no reason in the esrly 1900s

[remrad]

Listen to that "The blood of our soldiers" Hamas?

[Pantimoto]

Turkey has always been sleeping in two beds

[FatherFigure-itout]

I was in turkey on my last deployment in 07 with the 2nd marine expeditionary force. They were so very kind and respectful. This is strange to see