Turkish melee at UN: “They acted like thugs”

PanARMENIAN.Net - A brawl involving the Turkish Prime Minister has been caught on camera inside the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.

A brawl broke out between Turkish officials and U.N. security members last Thursday after a misunderstanding led to the Turkish diplomats being brought to the wrong area of the building. When U.N. security said the diplomats couldn’t enter, the Turkish security detail got violent. In fact, there are allegations that the Turkish security team even “elbowed” and “threw” female guards.

The New York Post explains: “Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s security team members became aggressive after they were escorted to the wrong floor during Thursday’s session, sources tell us. After being told they couldn’t enter that area by UN security, they “pushed their way onto the floor, screaming, shoving and stomping on UN security,” witnesses said, as the group tried to push in to hear the debate over Palestine.

A female UN security officer was elbowed in her chest and suffered several bruises while a high-ranking uniformed officer was left with bruised ribs. “They acted like thugs,” said our source. “United Nations security isn’t allowed to use force, and the Turkish staff had diplomatic immunity.”

Another witness told us that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who made his first speech before the UN on Thursday, blasting Israel for “building new barriers to peace” — was also present, and one of his guards “picked up a female UN security officer and threw her across the room, before UN security “jumped on” the Turkish guard.”

The post has video of the incident, which captured the chaos surrounding the incident.

The U.N. security officers were reportedly put on leave pending an investigation, but allowed to return once the union protested, The Blaze reported.