The Supreme Court turned away a request by Ankara to throw out lawsuits filed by protesters who say they were injured by Turkish agents outside its ambassador’s home in Washington during a 2017 protest against visiting President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey argued unsuccessfully that allowing the lawsuits to proceed would endanger both Turkish and U.S. officials outside their home countries.
The lawsuits came out of a May 6, 2017 incident in which Turkish security forces clashed with demonstrators who were protesting the visit of Erdogan, an authoritarian who is turning his country away from its traditional secularism.
Turkey joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1952 and is an ally of the United States….