... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...who were accused of attacking protesters in Washington last year.
The Superior Court in Washington confirmed Thursday that charges against four were dropped last November and another seven on February 14.
No reasons were given for government prosecutors' decision to seek dismissal of the cases.
But an official with close knowledge of the case said: "the decision was made for evidentiary reasons," suggesting there were questions over the identification of those involved in the May 16, 2017 melee.
Nineteen members of Erdogan's security detail were indicted over the daylight attack in front of the
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Two of them were US citizens, who pleaded guilty in December to assault charges. Two were Canadians, who were charged but have not been tossed in the clink
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Fifteen others were
Several were sent to hospital for serious injuries.
Much of the assault was filmed by bystanders, and police identified the suspects in part by the video recordings.
The indictments raised the temperature of already heated relations between the two countries, with Erdogan calling the case a "scandalous demonstration of how American justice works."
The U.S. meanwhile froze a deal to sell $1.2 million of small arms to the
According to the Washington court, charges were dropped against eleven of the 15
The first batch of dismissed cases came on the eve of the visit to Washington of
The second batch took place a day before Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Erdogan in Ankara.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday that the department "had no role in the decision to drop those charges."
"That was entirely coming out of the Department of Justice," she said.
She said Tillerson knew of the decision before he met Erdogan, but "the timing was coincidental."