A lawmaker was injured in a fight in the Turkish parliament between government and opposition lawmakers.
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Hüseyin Örs of the opposition Iyi party was hospitalized with an abnormal heart rhythm in the capital Ankara today after a lawmaker from the ruling AKP party knocked him to the ground, DHA news agency reported.
Örs, 58, is in the intensive care unit. The photos showed that he was taken away by ambulance.
The two groups initially argued verbally and then attacked each other with fists. Several MPs fell to the ground, as reported by the DHA and as seen in the photos. The reason for the dispute is not clear. Parliament had a budget planning session.