Servet Gunerigok, Ovunc Kutlu, aa.com
Turkey’s US envoy on Thursday strongly condemned an attack on a Turkish restaurant in California, calling on federal and local authorities to protect Turkish Americans there. Ambassador Serdar Kilic’s remarks came a day after a group of extremist Armenians attacked the Istanbul Cafe restaurant, located in Beverly Hills in the Los Angeles metro area. …
The Los Angeles branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) condemned the attack, calling for law enforcement to investigate it as a hate crime and for the perpetrators to be arrested and charged as such.
“We express our sympathies to the owners and patrons of the restaurant who were attacked and to the local Turkish-American community, which has been terrorized and shaken by this hateful assault,” Hussam Ayloush, the head of CAIR-LA, said in a statement.
“The level of viciousness shown in the video is both outrageous and sickening. No individual or their business should be targeted in a manner such as this. We urge fellow Californians not to allow international conflicts to undermine harmony and the safety of any community here in our country,” he added.
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