Two U.S. Marines Attacked in Turkey by Nationalist Youth Group

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Two U.S. Marines Attacked in Turkey by Nationalist Youth Group

The Turkish authorities said they had detained 15 members of a nationalist youth organization in connection with the ******** of two U.S. Marines stationed in a port city in western Turkey on Monday.

The marines, members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, were off their ship and wearing plain clothes at the time of the ******* in Izmir, Turkey, Cmdr. Timothy Gorman, a spokesman for the U.S. Sixth Fleet, told

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. They were taken to a hospital for evaluation as a precaution, he said.

The marines have since returned to the ship and are safe, officials said.

“Local Izmir police and the Naval ********* Investigative Service are cooperating in an investigation of the incident,” Commander Gorman told CBS. “No Marines have been detained by authorities and those involved are cooperating with investigators.”

The Izmir governor’s office said in a statement on social media that members of the Turkish Youth Union were detained after the *******. The group is affiliated with the Patriotic Party, a nationalist group that does not hold any seats in Turkey’s Parliament, and has anti-********* views,

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The U.S. Embassy said in

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that the service members who had been assaulted were safe and aboard their amphibious ******** ship, the U.S.S. Wasp.

Video posted on social media and verified by the news agency Storyful appeared to show the ******* on the Marines. The footage shows a group of young men crowding around a man, restraining him and attempting to put a sack over his head, while another man tries to intervene and push members of the group away.

People could be heard chanting “******* go home” in English in the footage.

In 2014, members of the nationalist youth group were arrested in connection with the assaults of three visiting ********* sailors in Istanbul. Members of the group used similar tactics at the time — a large group descending on a few servicemen on leave and pulling white sacks over their heads — and uttered similar chants, including “******* go home!” and “Down with U.S. imperialism!”

The U.S.S. Wasp arrived in Izmir on Sunday for a regularly scheduled port visit after a ****** training exercise with Turkey in the Mediterranean,

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. The vessel was sent to the region as a part of broader

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by the U.S. Navy to deter further conflict in the Middle East.

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