BREAKING: Armenian Students Assaulted By Police While Protesting Turkey’s Ambassador At USC In Los Angeles

Today, dozens of Armenian students and community members held a protest at USC’s Annenberg Hall, where the University decided to host an event featuring Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States, Hasan Murat Mercan. Armenian students disrupted the Turkish Ambassador’s keynote speech before being forcibly removed from the event, after which the Ambassador denied the Armenian Genocide in his address to the audience. The Consul General of Azerbaijan, Ramil Gurbanov, was also in attendance. The protest began with an Armenian student standing up in the audience, holding up an Armenian flag in the air and chanting, joined by a dozen other students in the crowd. Police escorted several students outside as they chanted “shame on USC” and “1915 happening again,” in reference to the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the current Genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by Azerbaijan. The event coordinator, Dr. Robert Banks, demanded the students leave several times before ordering campus security and police officers to forcibly remove USC student protesters. The young Armenian students were forcibly removed, harassed, and assaulted for protesting against the Turkish Conference on Public Diplomacy, hosted by USC Annenberg. Dozens of campus police were on the scene, and several Armenian students reported injuries. Armenian students reported being denied entry into the event on the basis of their last name, and several from inside reported that chairs were folded up to claim capacity issues. The protest was organized by the Armenian Students Association (@ArmenianStuden1) and the Armenian Youth Federation (@ayfwest). USC’s decision to host the event caused controversy across the Southern California Armenian community. On Tuesday, USC’s Armenian Students Association and the AYF published a joint statement on Instagram that said Mercan “is known for directly upholding Turkey’s policy of Armenian Genocide denial.” The ASA wrote, “Genocidal policy has no place in foreign policy — or on a college campus.” The public statement came after USC ASA sent a private letter to the event coordinators over the weekend requesting the event be canceled out of respect to the Armenian student community at USC amid the ongoing genocide in Artsakh, which was met by a denial citing the University’s “free speech” policy. This is a developing story. Follow @ZartonkMedia for the latest updates.

From what I see Armenians are assaulting them🤣🤣🤣

Is that genocide?

Police knows the history well.

ASALA terrorists organisation killed 31 Turkish diplomats , executed by Armenian terrorists,today we can clearly witness how Armenians are still extremists & pose a danger to ethnic Turks in a large mob mentality, cowardly attacks on a the Turkish Ambassador

Armenians by million in Los Angeles should ask for LA police chief to resign

What this mob did and why security measures had to be leveled up:

The scoundrels who shamelessly attacked a diplomat began to cry as usual. The real summary of Armenians is hidden in the article above.

I’ve always hated USC. This adds to it 😂😂UCLA BRUINS!!!!!!!!!!

This is not protest, this is vandalism…