Turkey: a deputy in critical condition after a fight in Parliament

December 06, 2022, 12:42 PM

A Turkish opposition lawmaker is in critical condition after suffering a severe arrhythmia on Tuesday during a fight with a lawmaker from the ruling Islamist AKP party in Turkey’s parliament, local press reported.

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Hüseyin Örs, 58 years old and from the Iyi opposition party, was beaten on Tuesday -for reasons still unknown- by an AKP deputy during a debate on the state budget. According to the electronic version of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, the attacked deputy was transferred to a clinic, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit.

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The images released by the Turkish press show the deputy from Trabzon, on the Black Sea (northeast), beaten by a representative of the ruling party, the AKP (Islamo-conservative Justice and Development Party). AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had no comment for now.

The fight took place during a debate on the 2023 budget. Fights and exchanges of blows are very frequent in the tense debates that take place in the Turkish congress.
WILLIAM MORENO HERNANDEZ
International Writing