Hundreds of Lebanese of Armenian descent clashed with army troops during a protest Thursday over a visit to Beirut by the Turkish prime minister, haaretz.com repoted.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a two-day trip during which he met with officials and visited the north and south of the country. He was inaugurating a hospital in the southern port city of Sidon on Thursday as hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital's Martyrs' Square to denounce his visit.
When demonstrators tore up a large poster of Erdogan and pelted troops with rocks, security responded by beating up a number of them, says the article.
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