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TEHRAN, February 16 - US State Secretary Tillerson arrived in Ankara on Thursday for talks with the Turkish side, which are believed to be difficult as the tensions between the two NATO allies have been running high recently over a number of issues, particularly Washington's support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG units.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The police tried to disperse protesters with tear gas during the anti-US demonstration held amid Tillerson's visit to Ankara, the organizers say.
According to the Sputnik Turkey, the police urged participants of the demonstration not to block the road and then cut them out from the building where the negotiations took place. The protest action is already over.
Photos on the social media show protesters, who gathered in front of the Ankara Palace hotel, where Tillerson was conducting talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Activists chanted anti-American slogans: "America kills our soldiers", "Damn the Kurdistan Workers' Party and its ally America", "Killer Tillerson, get out of Turkey."
Haykut Dish, head of the youth department of the Turkish opposition party Vatan, which organized the protest told Sputnik that about 150 people took part in the demo. He noted that there were no permission to hold a rally received from the government.
Dish said that though the police used tear gas, "they themselves said that it was not their desire, but they were forced to do it."
According to the activist, the US is behind all the threats that Turkey faces in politics, economy and in the international arena. "We protest against this imperialist oppression," he added.
Source: Sputnik
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