WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed concern on Monday about the Turkish police's rough treatment of anti-government protesters, in a rebuke to a NATO ally that Washington has often held up as an example of a Muslim democracy.
"We are concerned by the reports of excessive use of force by police," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters. "We obviously hope that there will be a full investigation of those incidents and full restraint from the police force."
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