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Television footage shows dozens of lawmakers from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and from opposition parties engaged in a tussle. Some legislators threw punches at each other, while others tried to pull their fighting colleagues apart.
At least one legislator was knocked to the ground, video images show.
The private DHA news agency says Huseyin Ors, a lawmaker from the opposition Good Party, was punched in the face.
A lawmaker who is a doctor by training tended to Ors, who was then taken to a hospital by ambulance, DHA reports. Ors suffers from heart problems and was placed under emergency care as a precaution.
Fighting is a frequent occurrence in Turkey's parliament. It was not immediately known what caused Tuesday's brawl, but tensions are running high ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for June.
We need an opposition to the dictates of Turdeau like you see in Turkish parliament, not the psychophants [Link] in our NDP, Green and even Conservative parties.
Can you see Poilievere [Link] throwing a haymaker at Turdeau? No, neither can I