A New York City art gallery owner says he was assaulted by a group of teenagers because he was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.

Jahangir Turan, 42, told officials that he was in SoHo around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he was struck in the head from behind, ABC 7 in New York reported. He refused to receive medical attention.

Turan also said that the teenagers yelled "(expletive) Trump" before attacking him. He spoke at a news conference on Thursday, wearing the hat and appearing with bruises and swelling on his face. He said 15 to 18 people were involved in the attack.

"One girl flipped my hat, and within five to eight seconds, I got pushed from the back of my face, and my face hit the scaffolding pole. I got startled, I walked away," he said.

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Turan said he called the police, but is upset that they have not made any arrests.

"It's kind of ridiculous to get beat up like this for wearing a hat," he said.

Turan said he bought the hat at Trump Tower that day, but now plans to keep it at home, believing that "it's dangerous to wear a hat like this in New York City."

This isn't the first time that wearing a MAGA hat in public has proven controversial.

In April, two men in their 20s were arrested in Maryland for allegedly harassing, robbing, and assaulting a man wearing the hat. After the attack, the two men were later found hiding among kids playing basketball.

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Also in April, a California woman was fired from her job at a music store for confronting a man wearing a MAGA hat at a Starbucks cafe. The woman reportedly called the elderly man "Nazi scum" and "yelled at him about how it was not okay to hate brown people," according to since-deleted social media posts she made about the incident.

And, in February, a woman who knocked off a man's MAGA hat in a Mexican restaurant in Massachusetts was arrested on multiple charges and later taken into ICE custody.

Contributing: Joel Shannon, Joey Garrison and N'Dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY