on november 12, 2014, members of the tgb protested united states navy sailors from the that were in istanbul and telling them, in english, "you declare that you are a member of us army, and now because we define you as murderers, as killers, we want to you, you to, get out of our land." they also chanted "yankee, go home" as they assaulted three sailors and chased them as they fled the scene. the incident was video recorded. the tgb put out a statement saying: "bags we put over the american soldiers are for the nations of palestine to syria." turkish police later arrested 12 members of the tgb who, in december, were charged for the assault and the istanbul tgb president uğur aytaç said about the violent attack: "proud to be detained for such a reason."