Turkish nationalists attack U.S. sailors, shout "Yankee go home!"
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A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday (November 12), shouting "Yankee go home" and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the U.S. embassy.
Video footage posted on the website of the ultra-nationalist Turkish Youth Union showed the attackers surrounding the sailors, calling them "murderers" and throwing orange paint at the men.
The attackers' actions were an apparent reference to an incident in Iraq in July 2003, when U.S. forces detained a Turkish special forces unit, leading its members away for interrogation with hoods over their heads.
"Because we define you as murderers, as killers, we want you to get out of our land," one of the attackers says in English, before the group chases the soldiers down a street lining the Bosphorus on the edge of Istanbul's historic peninsula.
The U.S. embassy described the video, apparently
A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday (November 12), shouting "Yankee go home" and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the U.S. embassy.
Video footage posted on the website of the ultra-nationalist Turkish Youth Union showed the attackers surrounding the sailors, calling them "murderers" and throwing orange paint at the men.
The attackers' actions were an apparent reference to an incident in Iraq in July 2003, when U.S. forces detained a Turkish special forces unit, leading its members away for interrogation with hoods over their heads.
"Because we define you as murderers, as killers, we want you to get out of our land," one of the attackers says in English, before the group chases the soldiers down a street lining the Bosphorus on the edge of Istanbul's historic peninsula.
The U.S. embassy described the video, apparently