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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) - Members of the security detail of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who kicked and beat up American-Kurdish protestors in May in Washington, DC were not "above the law," said the Mayor of US federal capital Muriel Bowser on Monday.

"By issuing arrest warrants for the 12 Turkish government agents involved in the brutal and unprovoked attack, we send a clear and unambiguous message that no one not even the security force of a foreign leader is above the law," wrote Bowser in a short opinion piece in the New York Times.

Two US resident Turks have already been arrested for their involvement in the attack.

Bowser defended her administration's last week announcement of charges and arrest warrants against 18 individuals, including 12 members of the Turkish presidential security detail who brutalized peaceful demonstrators outside the Turkish ambassadors residence in Washington.

The assault took place shortly after a long-awaited White House meeting between Erdogan and President Donald Trump on May 16.

District of Columbia's decision to go after Erdogan's security detail angered him last Friday.

"How can such a thing happen? They [Americans] have issued arrest warrants for 12 of my bodyguards. What kind of law is this," Erdogan asked in his first remarks since the attack that led to an uproar from the media and widespread condemnation by prominent politicians in the US.

"The actions of those Turkish security officials and their supporters were a reprehensible attack on a core American value: the right to assemble and protest peacefully," said Bowser.

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