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Armenpress: WATCH: Turkey parliament session on Syria turns into fistfight

WATCH: Turkey parliament session on Syria turns into fistfight

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 11:22, 5 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 5, ARMENPRESS. A discussion over the situation in Syria’s Idlib, namely on the Turkish military intervention, escalated into a brawl and fistfight in Turkey’s parliament.

The brawl was seemingly sparked after an opposition lawmaker from CHP party called Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “traitor”.

The clash on Wednesday started when Engin Ozkoc of the opposition Republican People’s Party took the rostrum. During a news conference shortly before, Ozkoc called Erdogan “dishonorable, ignoble, low and treacherous," according to AP. 

During a speech to members of his party, Erdogan himself had accused the opposition earlier of being “dishonorable, ignoble, low and treacherous” for questioning Turkey’s military involvement in Syria’s northwest Idlib province.

The opposition and ruling parties began exchanging bitter words and it quickly escalated into a physical brawl.

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Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS