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A group of protesters hold placards reading "Yankee go Home - No way to USA," in Istanbul, on April 14, 2021. — A group of protesters hold placards reading "Yankee go Home! No way to USA," in Istanbul, on April 14, 2021, during a demonstration against the US decision to send two warships to sail through Turkey's Bosporus to the Black Sea. — OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

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U.S. sailors stand on board as guided-missile destroyer USS Ross leaves from the port in Istanbul November 13, 2014. A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting "Yankee go home" and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the United States. The attackers' actions were an apparent reference to an incident in Iraq in July 2003, when U.S. forces detained a Turkish special forces unit, leading its members away

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U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross prepares to leave from the port in Istanbul November 13, 2014. A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting "Yankee go home" and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the United States. The attackers' actions were an apparent reference to an incident in Iraq in July 2003, when U.S. forces detained a Turkish special forces unit, leading its members away for interr

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