{"id":160607,"date":"2024-09-02T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=160607"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:20:43","slug":"uss-wasp-personnel-attacked-in-izmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160607","title":{"rendered":"USS Wasp Personnel Attacked in Izmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160608 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/wasp-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/wasp-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/wasp.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>USS Wasp (LHD-1)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Service Members Assaulted by Turkish Nationalist Youth Group<\/h3>\n<p><strong>John Hayward<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two American service members were attacked by a mob of young Turkish nationalists in the western city of Izmir on Monday as a crowd of onlookers chanted anti-American slogans. The American personnel are reportedly safe, and Turkish police have arrested 15 of the assailants.<\/p>\n<p>The assault appeared to be an attempted kidnapping, as the mob threw a sack over the head of one American sailor while the other tried to defend him.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was reportedly thwarted when five other U.S. soldiers stepped in, followed by Turkish police.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the Izmir governor said the attackers were members of a group called Turkiye Genclik Birligi (TGB), or the \u201cTurkey Youth Union\u201d in English. TGB is the virulently anti-American youth wing of a fringe nationalist party called Vatan Partisi, or the \u201cPatriotic Party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2024\/09\/02\/u-s-service-members-assaulted-by-turkish-nationalist-youth-group\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in. Thanks to Mick for the head&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Wasp (LHD-1) U.S. Service Members Assaulted by Turkish Nationalist Youth Group John Hayward Two American &hellip; <a title=\"USS Wasp Personnel Attacked in Izmir\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160607\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Wasp Personnel Attacked in Izmir<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[706,306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}