YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS. For more than fifteen years, two inseparable companions stand out during Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign visits.

One of them is the Turkish autocratic leader’s bodyguard entourage, the other – the protests of people who are objectively discontented from this autocracy and its political consequences.

During the years, a special status quo had formed between Erdogan’s bodyguards, who’d never stood out with civility, and the other companion of Turkey’s autocratic leader: the protesters.

Hours ago, this balance was ultimately breached in the US capital, two miles from the White House. Surely, the Turkish security detail had earned a notorious reputation before that, both in the US, when they were under media spotlight for brawling with the American Secret Service during world famous boxer Muhammad Ali’s funeral, and by their ‘good manners’ during the Nuclear Summit, which was the reason for the reputable Brookings Institution to cancel Erdogan’s speech at the last moment.

In the context of this all, even the story when Erdogan’s ten-strong bodyguard entourage was guarding the Turkish First Lady’s mini shopping campaign in Warsaw’s stores, which increased Poland’s money circulation with nearly two hundred thousand zlotys, fades away.

And today, Erdogan’s security did their best for Turkey to once again appear on international headlines. But this revelation doesn’t cause the innocent smile, which the Turkish First Lady’s shopping companion’s status deserves.

Yesterday it was already known that Erdogan’s visit will be protested against by organizations who question US policy for Turkey, including the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), which said in a statement: “It’s time to challenge Erdogan’s arm-twisting and – even more importantly – to call out the Turkish government’s covert campaign to hijack U.S. policy through questionable payments to foreign agents, lobbyists, and other influence peddlers. He can start putting American principles and priorities first by rejecting Ankara’s gag-rule against honest U.S. remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.”

Now, it seems that this statement sounds anachronistic, due to the reason that in addition to political pressure, Turks in the US went on to physical pressure – charging obviously specially trained fighters against peaceful protesters.

Erdogan, who is losing touch with reality, addressed a new message to everyone, hinting that terror against their protestors will not be limited solely in Turkey. And this is already a display of hidden fears and extreme frustration. As a matter of fact, the bodyguard entourage is the reflection of its leader’s unbalanced conduct.

Meanwhile, Turkish media are attempting to find more or less reasonable explanations for this action which doesn’t anyhow have a justification – the extremely brutal vengeance against nearly three dozen people, namely elderly demonstrators, which resulted in nine people being hospitalized.

And now it doesn’t even matter that the law enforcement of the host country became the indirect target of this brazen attack, who, to say the least, appeared in an awkward situation. It’s impossible to understand how this devilish idea emerged in the minds of the attackers or its masterminds against a group of defenseless people, it is clear however that the footage which took over the internet - depicting battery carried out with satisfaction - prove the very thing which the group of US taxpayers were protesting, who gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Washington – two miles from the White House.

Aram Ananyan