A week ago last year, a small group of men, women and children gathered in the heart of our nation's capital to voice their opposition to the policies and practices of the Republic of Turkey's leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Joined together in peaceful protest were individuals with a variety of different backgrounds--Turkish, Iranian, Armenian and American among others -- they even included a four-year-old boy with his mother, and a seven-year-old girl with her father. This was quintessential America, individuals with varying backgrounds coming together to exercise their right to peaceful assembly to speak truth to power.
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