The U.S. Army has been forced to take down websites that have been compromised by hackers into displaying anti-Trump messages.
According to The Daily Beast, the affected websites "contained pro-Kurdish slogans along with messaging like 'the US president is a pedophile & thief. (expletive) trump & tom barrack (sic),' a reference to the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey."
The defaced websites were first reported by CyberScoop.
All of this comes as Trump is in Turkey for a NATO summit. The Turkish government is known to ruthlessly suppress Kurdish separatist groups, some of which, in turn, are recognized as terrorist groups like the PKK.
The conflict between Turkey and Kurdish separatists "has killed tens of thousands over the past forty years and has long underpinned Turkish state suppression of Kurdish language and identity," noted the report, which added that Trump and Barrack "further angered Kurdish advocates in January when they appeared to endorse a government offensive in neighboring Syria" designed to recapture Kurdish territory.
Trump's presence at the NATO summit has come with numerous other controversies, including a joint appearance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly mixed him up with Vladimir Putin and referred to his war against "the Islamic Republic of Japan."
