埃爾多安支持者和抗議者在華盛頓發生衝突，美國傳召土耳其大使

The State Department summoned Turkey's ambassador after bodyguards and supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat protesters outside the Turkish embassy earlier this week.

A State Department official said Ambassador Serdar Kilic met with Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon Wednesday -- a day after the embassy violence. "Violence is never an appropriate response to free speech, and we support the rights of people everywhere to free expression and peaceful protest," State Department spokesman Heather Nauert said. "We are communicating our concern to the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms."

The embassy blamed the violence on groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), saying they "aggressively provoked Turkish-American citizens" who had gathered to greet Erdogan.

Tuesday's fight outside the embassy injured 11 people, at least one critically. It took place just hours after Erdogan met with President Donald Trump at the White House.土耳其總統埃爾多安的保鏢和支持者本週早些時候在土耳其大使館外毆打抗議者後，美國國務院傳召了土耳其駐美大使。

國務院一位官員說，使館暴力事件一天後，塞爾達爾·克勒奇大使星期三同美國次國務卿托馬斯.沙農會面。“暴力永遠不是迴應言論自由的妥善方式，我們支持任何地方的人民自由表達與和平抗議的權利。” 國務院發言人努爾特說：“我們以最強烈的措辭向土耳其政府表達了我們的關切。”

土耳其大使館把暴力事件歸咎於和庫爾德工人黨有聯繫的團體，並且說他們對聚集在那裏迎接埃爾多安的土耳其裔美國公民進行了野蠻挑釁。

星期二土耳其使館外的暴力事件導致11人受傷，至少一人傷勢嚴重。幾個小時前，川普總統和埃爾多安總統在白宮舉行了會晤。