A serious punch up broke out in the Turkish parliament today, 18 Feb 2015, over the law to increase police powers.
The bill increases police powers to arrest, monitor and eavesdrop without judicial warrants. The discussion heated up to the point that ruling AKP members of parliament engaged in punchups with opposition members. Two AKP MPs gto hold of the speaker's gavel (little ceremonial hammer) and injured their opponents.
This is democracy Erdo style. Presumably that is how he envisages our upper house under a turko-BBF. Our national anthem might be the song "If I had a Hammer".
Erdo, asked to comment on the fracas, said "this law must be voted soon and enforced even sooner".