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Audiovisual analysis of footage recorded at the Turkish embassy on Tuesday sheds light on the verbal commands given by Turkeys president prior to his bodyguards attack on a group of Kurdish protesters.

A professional sound editor named Salih Ferad conducted the analysis on behalf of The Daily Caller.

Usingnoise reduction and volume enhancement techniques, Ferad determined that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogans security detail shouted out the phrases he says attack and come, come, come as they charged the protesters.

The battle cries came just after Erdogan appeared to relay orders to his personal bodyguard while sitting in the back of a black Mercedes Benz outside of the embassy.

In video of that scene, recorded by Voice of America Turkish news service, Erdogans bodyguard stands up from the Mercedes and appears to relay a message to another man who was positioned closer to the street level action. The man then turns and rushes quickly in the direction of the protests. Shouting is heard, and Erdogans security staff was seen storming the protesters. (RELATED: Video Emerges Of Erdogan Watching As His Goons Attack Protesters)

Erdogans security detail won the street battle. Suit-clad men from the pro-Erdogan side of the fracas were recorded kicking protesters in the head and choking others. Nine people were injured, one seriously.

The incident has increased tensions between the U.S. and Turkish governments. It also comes as Erdogan is in the midst of a crackdown on dissenters at home.

Ferad analyzed the VOA Turkish video, which shows Erdogan calmly watching as the brawl unfolds yards away.

Using noise isolation techniques, Ferad says that the wordsdaln diyor, servetabidaln diyor can be heard coming from the presidential guard just after Erdogan is seen speaking with his bodyguard.

That translates to he says attack servet abi, he says attack. Another translation of the phrase is he says dive in or plunge in.

Servet is the name of the person being addressed, and abi translates to the term of endearment, older brother.

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In a second video recorded in the middle of the brawl, Erdogans men are heard yelling gel gel gel come, come, come and daln diyordaln diyordaln diyor, or he says attack.

Ferad included timestamps and captions in the videos he analyzed.

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The State Department has said it is investigating the incident and also issued a statement condemning the Turkish government in the strongest possible terms.

The embassy responded by claiming that Erdogans protection detail was acting in self-defense against the protesters, which the Turkish government claims were terrorists associated with PKK, a left-wing Kurdish political party.

Several lawmakers blasted Erdogan and his goons. The video of Erdogan hanging out in his Mercedes and apparently ordering the onslaught also led to widespread outrage on social media.

Arizona Sen. John McCain said in an interview on Thursday that the U.S. government should throw Turkeys ambassador, Serdar Kilic, the hell out of the United States of America.

In one video recorded of Tuesdays events, Kilic is seen confronting a Washington, D.C. police officer who was trying to break up the street fight.

You cannot touch us, he tells the officer, seemingly citing diplomatic immunity granted to registered diplomatic agents.

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President Donald Trump and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to discuss U.S.Turkish trade relations, the fight against terrorism, and more. But one topic that seems to have been ignored was Turkeys democratic-turned-autocratic regime, which is at odds with a core NATO principle: that member states will promote democratic values.

Erdogan is intolerant of any opposition, especially when it comes from those in the media. As of December 2016, 81 journalists, more than in any other country in the world, were in Turkish prisons.

The U.S. and its NATO allies must lead Turkey back on to the path toward democracy, not autocracy. Turkey officially joined NATO in 1952 after establishing a multiparty election system in 1950. Nearly 70 years later, Turkeys NATO allies must continue to hold all members to high standards, ensuring that they maintain democratic norms.

If the U.S. and NATO remain silent on Erdogans violations of human rights, the number of Turkish citizens being persecuted will likely increase, especially now that Erdogan has the authority to control all three branches of government. The Turkish people in April passed a referendum granting him broad presidential power, but there is reason to believe that it was not a fair and free election.

On Tuesday, the Bipartisan Policy Center said that the U.S. should call for a reputable and impartial international review of the referendum, and continue to treat the results as illegitimate until such a point as Turkey has a free press and independent judiciary capable of investigating all evidence of fraud. The BPC document also called on the U.S. to demand that Turkish officials release the journalists who are imprisoned because of their opposition to the president. The key for American policymakers, it said, is to remain critical of Erdogans intensified efforts to crack down on his opponents through increasingly draconian means.

Thus far, however, President Trump has done the opposite: He congratulated Erdogan for his referendum victory and pursued a stronger alliance with Turkey in the fight against terrorism. Advocates of a TrumpErdogan alliance argue that Trumps actions are appropriate: A U.S.Turkish alliance in the fight against terrorism is necessary, and publicly opposing Erdogans regime would undermine counterterrorism efforts.

But Blaise Misztal, the director of the BPCs national-security program, tells National Review that Turkish cooperation with the U.S. on counterterrorism is mythical at this point. Turkey turned a blind eye to ISISs use of its territory until 2015, Misztal explains, and it has bombed the Syrian Kurds, a U.S. ally on the ground.

The U.S. and NATO ought to call Erdogan out on his excesses, Misztal says. More than anything, what Erdogan craves is the approval of world leaders....He wants to be seen as a player on the world stage. If Turkeys NATO allies ignore Erdogans human-rights violations, the nation will almost certainly see the demise of its remaining democratic norms.

Even faced with the possibility of losing their democracy, Erdogans supporters appear to have remained loyal over the past several elections (if we assume that the result of Aprils referendum on executive power was anaccurate reflection of public opinion). In the June 2015 parliamentary election, Erdogans party earned only 40.87 percent of the national vote but, according to the BPC, the data on Turkish elections suggest[s] that the results of June 2015 were an anomaly and that concerns over Erdogans authoritarianism, as well as the risks it brings to Turkeys stability and economic prosperity, have had little impact on voters. It seems that many of Erdogans devout supporters are concerned more with religious and cultural issues than with human rights and democracy.

If members of NATO dont begin expressing their disapproval of Erdogans regime, they will soon have in their alliance a country that explicitly defies the values NATO cherishes. Though he entered office with the promise of liberalization, EU membership, and economic growth, the BPC report stated, Erdogan now represents authoritarianism, abandonment of the West, and civil conflict.

Austin Yack is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review Institute.

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Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is seen watching his security officials beat protesters outside the countrys embassy in Washington in newly released video footage.

The bloodyclash, which sent nine people to a hospital, took place Tuesday night just hours after Erdogan met with President Trump.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House with President Trump May 16, 2017 (White House photo)

CNN reported the video shows Erdogan standing near his car as the fighting broke out then turning his back and walking into the Turkish embassy.

Photos and videos of the scene on Embassy Row during rush hour showed men in dark suits punching and kicking protesters, including some who were lying on the ground. Two men were seen bleeding from the head.

The State Department, which is investigating the incident, summoned Turkeys ambassador to the U.S., Serdar Kl, to the State Department, a senior State Department official told CNN.

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The conduct of Turkish security personnel earlier this week is deeply disturbing, the official said. The State Department has raised its concerns about these events at the highest levels and a thorough investigation that will allow us to hold the responsible individuals accountable is of the utmost importance to us.

Members of Erdogans security team also clashed with demonstrators last year outside the Brookings Institution in Washington, where Erdogan was giving a speech.

Brookings issued a statement at the time saying the security team behaved unacceptably they roughed up protesters outside the building and tried to drag away undesired journalists, an approach typical of the Russians or Chinese.

As WND reported, many geopolitical analysts are concerned the NATO nation, once regarded as a potential member of the European Union, is being systematically transformed into an anti-Western power. Fifteen years into his rule, Erdogan is abandoning the secular tradition of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, in favor of Islamic nationalism.

Last month, Erdogan declared victory in a referendum to grant him sweeping powers in a vote opponents charged was marred by irregularities.

The measure, with 51.5 percent of the vote, replaced Turkeys parliamentary system with an all-powerful presidency and abolished the office of prime minister.

A week before his visit to the U.S., Erdogan urged Muslims to swarmthe Temple Mount to act as a counter to the insult of occupied Jerusalem.

He called Israel a racist and discriminatory state that is reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa.

Erdogan also met with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to work on unifying efforts to protect Jerusalem against attempts of Judaization, the independent Palestinian Maan news agency reported.

In December, as WND reported, hacked emails released by WikiLeaks showed Erdogans son-in-law is tied to the company accused of importing oil from ISIS. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov previously told journalists in Moscow that Erdogan and his family were involved in ISIS illegal oil trade and personally benefiting from it.

Turkey also has been accused of training ISIS fighters and of providing direct support to ISIS.

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At the White House Tuesday, Trump and Erdogan described the relationship between the two countries as strong but avoided the differences over strategies for confronting ISIS in northern Syria.

Pastor Andrew Brunson

Last week, the Trump administration decided to supply heavy weapons to Syrian Kurdish rebel militias, the YPG, who are part of the U.S.-backed alliance preparing march on the ISIS de-facto capital, Raqqa, later this year. Turkey is in an ongoing battle with Kurdish separatists in its southeast.

The Turkish embassy claimsthe protesters at the embassy Tuesday were affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the leading Kurdish separatist group, which has been banned in Turkey.

The case of Pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been imprisoned in Turkey without formal charges since October, was brought up three times during Trumps meeting with Erdogan, twice by Trump and once by Vice President Mike Pence, CBN reported.

A former member of Turkeys Parliament who has advocated for Brunsons release, Aykan Erdemir, told CBN that Brunson, improbably accused of membership in an armed terrorist organization, is now a pawn, kind of a trump card in Erdogans hand.

Theres absolutely no rule of law, no due process in that case, its a completely bogus case. Anyone who has looked at the case knows that these are trumped up charges, he said.

Turkish President Erdogan is seen surveying the violence before entering the Turkish ambassadors residence (Voice of America Turkish)

Turkey claims self-defense

The senior State Department official who spoke to CNN said two members of Erdogans security detail were briefly detained during the altercations and subsequently released.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has called for the Turkish ambassador to be expelled.

The Turkish embassy, in its statement, claimed theprotesters began aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefully assembled to greet the President.

The Turkish-Americans responded in self-defense, the statement said. We hope that, in the future, appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that similar provocative actions causing harm and violence do not occur.

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