Once again supporters of Turkish PresidentĀ Recep Tayyip Erdogan have roughed up American protesters on American soil. As Erdogan delivered a speech to supporters in New York City at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square on Thursday, a handful of protesters began holding up signs and yelling anti-Erdogan slogans. Men in black suitsĀ immediately rushed the protesters and began violently removing them while the crowd punched and shoved those being carried out.