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The Grand Turk

Turkey arrests 15 for attack on US personnel in Izmir

2024-09-03

See video of the attack here.

[Rudaw] Fifteen members of a Ottoman Turkish ultranationalist group were arrested on Monday and charged with attacking two US military personnel while at port in the western coastal city of Izmir.

"Fifteen suspects involved in the incident have been detained and taken into custody upon the orders of the on-duty public prosecutor," read a statement from Izmir governorate.

Around 4 pm on Monday, the statement added, a group from the ultranationalist Ottoman Turkish Youth Union (TGB)

…in Turkish Turkiye Genclik Birligi, translated as Turkish Youth Union or Youth Union of Turkey, they’re a fraternity of revolutionary socialist clubs at about 49 Turkish universities — the youth wing of the Kemalist socialist Patriot Party, which is too small to actually win elections. They’re for Ataturk and against America, Israel, NATO, the EU, and Recep Tayip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party. Also McDonald’s. Their thing is mobbing a few American soldiers/sailors on leave, putting bags on their heads, and announcing the action in support of the Palestinians and in memory of American troops doing the same to Turkish soldiers in Iraq during Gulf War II in 2003….

attacked US service members in civilian clothes in Izmir.

"A judicial investigation has been initiated regarding the matter," the statement said.

Five other US military personnel were nearby, but not did not get involved in the incident, according to the statement.

The US Embassy in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
confirmed the attack on the US service members in a post on X.

The embassy added that the US personnel "were safe" and thanked "Ottoman Turkish authorities for their rapid response and ongoing investigation."

The two service members were aboard the USS Wasp, a multipurpose assault ship anchored in Izmir since Sunday. The crowded area where the attack took place is popular among tourists and locals.

TGB grabbed credit for the attack in a post on X and warned US military members from stepping foot on Ottoman Turkish soil.

"American soldiers, who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Paleostinians on their hands, cannot defile our country," the group said in a post on X that showed footage of the attack.

In the video, a group of people can be seen holding one of the US military members and forcing a plastic bag over their head, as the US soldier can be heard pleading for help. Some of the attackers also chanted: "Yankee, go home!"

Boys will be boys, but a plastic bag turns it into attempted murder.

The ultranationalist said the bag over the head of the US service member is in retaliation for US forces apprehending a group of Ottoman Turkish soldiers for three days and putting hoods over their heads in Sulaimani province in the Kurdistan Region during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The TGB confirmed that 15 of its members were arrested, including their leader Kayahan Cetin, in a later post on X.

The USS Wasp had conducted joint-training drills with Ottoman Turkish military vessels in the Mediterranean Sea in mid-August. The maneuvers drew waves of criticism in Ottoman Turkish media, depicting the deployment as a part of an operation to support Israel.

The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry described the training at the time as a "routine" activity that did not benefit Israel, nor harm Paleostine.

Posted by:trailing wife

#10 My last was to your #7, Anon1 —sorry.

Your #8 is brilliant. Well said!

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-03 22:03

#9 They’re little Brown Shirts, Anon1. Revolutionary Communist nationalist Turks, ie. fascists. We pay attention because they attack American military men, but they attack others who they don’t want allowed to walk freely in the streets as well. The only difference between them and the jihadis is that for them the religion is Communism and for the other the religion is Islam. Otherwise they are equally vicious Blood & Soil fanatics.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-03 22:01

#8 Thor McCoy you just do not know several facts causing your error

1) there is no ethnicity “palestinian” they are just Muslim Arabs same as the ones in Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. Identical ethnicity, culture, language and religion

2) even if Israel forcibly relocated every last muslim from gaza and west bank into jordan and Iraq, and killed every hamas member, it would not be a genocide as a distinct people would not have been destroyed

3) Hamas is just the name for the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood active all over the world, started in Egypt and backed with a $1 trillion war chest from Qatar with its own Al Jazeera propaganda network

4) the “palestinians“ Are the tiny light dangling from the angler fish. They are bait. For you. That is why Jordan and Egypt won’t take them in, because they are the martyrs to be used in the propaganda war to destroy israel

5) the “palestinian” flag is just the same flag as the pan arab revolt, syrian baath party, transjordania and iraq - because it is an invented ethnicity created in the 1960s by the KGB and Yasser Arafat for PR

6) hamas are genocidal and will not tolerate a jewish state the size of a postage stamp. This is a religious war and they intend to genocide all the jews they say so in their 1988 founding charter. There is no peace deal possible, because of the islamic imperative to take back any land once occupied by muslims belongs to islam forever

7) it is not their land. They are not the aborigines of israel. Jews are not european colonists. The jews have lived there continuously and it was their land first before the romans conquered them, then the muslims conquered the christian romans turning constantinople into istanbul. So the UN created Israel out of british mandate palestine, half of which britain already gave to arab muslims which is now Jordan. The UN created Israel plus another arab muslim state but the greedy muslims wanted it all for themselves and immediately started a war that will never end

Sorry you were lied to

Posted by: Anon1 2024-09-03 21:58

#7 These people are actually the good guys ie for attaturk and against the islamists

Sad they picked on americans

Is this because the US has been backing islamists in the last 30 years to pander to the saudis?

Every time they remove a secular dictator it is the islamists who win. Saddam, Gaddafi, attempt on Assad eg

Posted by: Anon1 2024-09-03 21:46

#6 It’s become boring, the lies people like Thor McCoy5884 tell to justify the hatred on which they center their dreary little lives.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-09-03 21:46

#5 Turkish Protesters Swarm Izmir Port Until US Warship Leaves Following Assault On Americans

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-03 14:15

#4 /\ Please take it elsewhere McCoy.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-03 12:37

#3 Genocide doesn't mean gas chambers, the Chinese didn't do that with the Uighur, neither the Burmans with the Rohingya and the other examples as well. It's the deliberate destruction of an entire people. And the perps don't get to decide, the rest of the human race does. The International Court of Justice in January found that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. More recently, the ICJ found Israel guilty apartheid and its military occupation and annexation of territory to be illegal. This means that all states, local governments, corporations and institutions must immediately end all forms of complicity in Israeli crimes and violations of international law.

Posted by: Thor McCoy5884 2024-09-03 12:29

#2 "Genocide"? If Israel wanted to, they could. Try again, troll

Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-03 11:59

#1 Why are we sending Navy ships to protect a government engaged in genocide? Did we send ships to help Myanmar genocide the Rohingya? Or to China to help them genocide the Uighurs? Or to South Sudan? Or to Yemen to help the Houthi genocide?

Posted by: Thor McCoy5884 2024-09-03 11:47

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