Germany Doesn’t Want Erdoğan’s Assailant Bodyguards at G-20

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Germany reportedly doesn't want President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's bodyguards, who assaulted protesters during Erdoğan's visit in US capital Washington, at the G-20 Summit to be organized in July, according to a report by Deutsche Well citing Welt am Sontag.

The newspaper reported that the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed to Turkey that those bodyguards against whom the US authorities issued a detention warrant shouldn't come to Germany.

Hamburg Police Department Spokesperson Ulf Wandrack had said that "The scenes seen like presidential bodyguards intervening the protesters in Washington won't happen Hamburg, otherwise police will intervene in" in his statement he gave to the Deutsche Welle Türkçe.

What happened?

The assault occurred in front of Turkey's Ambassador to Washington Serdar Kılıç as President Erdoğan came to the residence on May 16.

Nine people were injured in the assault.

Following the incident, the ambassador was summoned to the US Department of State.

Washington police detained 14 people during the assault, the two were later released. (EA/TK)