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20
2015
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Turkish parliament in second brawl this week over controversial anti-protest bill
Posted by Arms Control Center in INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, tags: Kurds, turkeyFisticuffs broke out in the Turkish parliament on Thursday night between members of the ruling party and Kurdish opposition deputies. The altercation was over a bill they say will turn the country into an “authoritarian state.”
The fight broke out after an increasingly fraught three-hour discussion of the mooted Homeland Security Reform, advocated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP party, which enjoys a recently renewed majority in the country’s legislative assembly.