Turkish Protesters Rough Up US Sailors in Istanbul

[Comrade Grumpy]

Source: ABC News

Anti-American protesters shouting "Yankee, go home!" roughed up three U.S. Navy sailors Wednesday in Istanbul near where their warship was docked on an inlet of the Bosphorus Strait in the Black Sea.

A dozen or more protesters shouted at them, calling them killers and said they should leave Turkey. The protesters, who carried a banner of the left-leaning Youth Association of Turkey, threw red paint at the sailors and briefly succeeded in putting white sacks over their heads.

"Soldiers from the occupying country think they can walk around freely in Eminonu," association spokesman Melik Dibek said, referring to the neighborhood where the incident occurred. "It's obvious why they've anchored here —because of their ambitions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. American imperialism is the reason why the Middle East has turned into a chamber of fire."

The servicemen, who were not in uniform, were from the USS Ross, a guided-missile destroyer docked nearby, according to Capt. Greg Hicks, a spokesman for the U.S. European Command. He said they were not hurt and were safely back aboard the ship, but that shore leave for its sailors was canceled for the remainder of the day.

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Attacked not by Islamists, but by Turkish leftists.

[Renew Deal]

1. The Turkish killers should leave Cyprus first.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Before what? Before the US quits being an imperialistic power?

Or before dissident Turkish leftists can say anything about the US?

[SkyDaddy7]

13. Turkish killers have a lot to answer for as well!

Like what they are systematically doing to the Kurds! What they have done to other minorities in the area for the past 150yrs!!

[Old Nick]

3. I'm not gonna make the joke

I'm not gonna make the joke.
I'm not gonna make the joke.
I'm not gonna make the joke.

[cosmicone]

4. You already did hahahahaha n/t

[eissa]

5. Ultra-nationalists Turks attacking non-Turks

Hhhmmm......why does that sound so familiar?

[Old Nick]

6. What do you armenia by that?

[EEO]

7. Yankee, huh? Not very accurate.

[FairWinds]

8. Well, this is accurate . .

"American imperialism is the reason why the Middle East has turned into a chamber of fire."

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

9. A few guided missiles would make things "right as rain".

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. The Ugly American rears his head. n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. So the tin foil hat means nothing now?

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. Non sequitur. Are you sure you're at the right place?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

15. Yes, are you sure you're at the right place?

[riversedge]

14. Whow, I would have

been scared! Glad none were hurt.

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