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Caught On Tape - Erdogan's 'Kingmaker' Bill Sparks Mass Brawl In Turkish Parliament
Chairs flew and lawmakers traded punches as AP reports a brawl in the Turkish Parliament over a new security bill (dubbed the 'kingmaker') has forced the spotlight on mounting suspicions that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's real goal is to hand himself more tools to crush dissent. Five lawmakers were injured early Wednesday in the fight that broke out as opposition leaders tried to delay a debate on the legislation.
The Fight...
The Aftermath...


More seriously, As AP reports,
The government says the measures to give police heightened powers to break up demonstrations are aimed at preventing violence such as the deadly clashes that broke out last year between Kurds, supporters of an Islamist group and police. Critics say that the new measures are part of a steady march toward blocking mass demonstrations that threaten Erdogan's iron grip over Turkish politics.
The bill would expand police rights to use firearms, allow them to search people or vehicles without a court order and detain people for up to 48 hours without prosecutor authorization. Police would also be permitted to use firearms against demonstrators who hurl Molotov cocktails. Demonstrators who cover their faces with masks or scarves during violent demonstrations could face four years in prison.
Crucially, the measures would give governors — not just prosecutors and judges — the right to order arrests.
In defending the bill, Erdogan said it was "aimed at protecting social order and social peace." Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu dismissed accusations that the measures will violate civil liberties, saying the goal is to protect society: "No one will be able to demonstrate with Molotov cocktails," he said over the weekend.
Metin Feyzioglu, the head of the Turkish Bar Association, said that giving local governors even limited powers to order arrests without going court orders is tantamount to martial law. "This is an extremely dangerous development," he said.
In recent years, Turkey has curbed media freedoms, cracked down on critical social media postings and prosecuted hundreds of people who took part in violent mass protests against the government in 2013 that centered on Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Square. In one case, Turkish prosecutors are seeking possible jail time for a former television presenter who posted a tweet suggesting a cover-up in a government corruption scandal. A Turkish schoolboy was also charged for publicly criticizing Erdogan over the scandal — falling afoul of a law against insulting the president.
"Erdogan is aware that he is not going to be able to achieve his goals through purely democratic means," said Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based analyst with the Institute for Security and Development Policy. "If you are trying to stop people from expressing their opinions, it is a sign that you are not accountable."
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"We will do all in our power to stop the bill," said pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas. "We will act together with all opposition legislators and cause a gridlock in parliament that will last for months."
But few believe the opposition effort will succeed: Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party has a strong majority in Parliament — and is likely to eventually find a way to ram through the bill.
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Turks were more pissed about this than our scum was with the Patriot Act.
I'd love to see pussies like McStain and Harry Reid slapfighting. If only they were really at odds over policy and shit.
Fight club lives, bitchezz.
I want to see John Kerry out there with his weaponized tongue flicker in motor fast action. He'd be chewing up that guy with the helicoptoring chair swivel. Zip Zing Zap
The "Mildy Islamist" Erdogan's problem is that he is really a jewish woman with a smidge of kurdish and Armenian ancestry. Noone sure when he underwent the sex change op. Verdict? Scumbag POS mother
The good news is that the new season of Vikings starts tomorrow. Ragnar would have done a bloody eagle on Erdogan's ass. Well, technically on his back...Now who else would I like to see that happen to...?
Fuck the Kurds - they are fucking parasitic vultures, like the Talmudic Khazars....
Fucking peas in a pod. Pond scum.
That's applicable to both, the zionist talmudists and the fucking kurds!
Who the hell does he think he is -- Obama?
I know how it ends - I read the saga. You'll never believe who else gets the blood eagle cut into his back.
You would have thought that it was McDonald's and they just informed them that they were no longer serving breakfast.
Oh wait, that's 'Merca.
pods
Black Friday Walmart
This would happen in our Congress ..if they were not on the same side. (and that side's purpose is to screw you.)
Our 'reliable' NATO partner and prospect EU member...
Maybe Choomy should fly over there and "twist some arms"
"Turks were more pissed about this than our scum was with the Patriot Act. "
Big difference between those Turkeys and American Chicken-hawks and Chicken-shits.
If only our reps would get into fistfights and or at least pretend to give a damn, I'd be willing to vote for them more.
Now that's a Congress!
I'm pushing back tears...
We can now add Turkey to the list...Ukraine, Greece.
Bursting at the seams.
I'm thinking a workin' man could do well there, you know, get heard....
Work... I think I was shown a video about that on the iPad at skool. Oldskool concept, yeah? Don't you get punished for doing that kinda stuff these days?
The bags of cash to the opposition leaders for passage of the bill must have been stolen...
Better than Term Limits!!!!
Newsflash... Jerry Springer in Turkish Parliament!
TMZ Reports
Welcome to Fight Club.
"We gotta put a guy up for Congress. I'm think Benny, the golden gloves kid."
Pussies, I've seen better womens catfights in a mud wrestling match.
In the good old U.S.S.A out "representatives" work together to anoint a king. All they ask in return is a small fiefdom.
I suspect it's all about a Nutella shortage.
just some local action in the world's last open outcry All Spice futures trading pit.
From reading the headline I thought Erdogan had a 'kingmaker' friend named Bill Sparks who started fighting.
Americans are domesticated animals. Not coming to the USA.
That's just so awesome. If only our "representatives" actually cared to fight agains the king. In the senate it would be about 97 to 3 (that dude from Oregon and maybe a couple extra)
We're so fucked
why can't our elected officials hurt themselves?
Because they specialize in hurting others, to benefit themselves.
Meh..its not really 'news'. This happens all the time over there.
I know you folks dont have teevees , but theres a show called 'most shocking vids' or whatev...and they show this stuff all the time.
Now..if it were in the U S...well...that would be cool.
Yea pretty commonplace.
government is dumb
Turks have had a much more bitter taste of what it means.
We don't learn how to organize and fight back - or why we need to - from civics textbooks or talking heads on TV. We learn in battle. The Turkish people - like just about everyone else in the world - are ahead of us on this account, but that doesn't make us different. It just makes us late.
When we awaken it will be something to see!
All Greek to me ...
Oops, wrong country
never mind
I'll put my money on the Ukrainians or the South Koreas, now they know how to fight!
that's good politicians should fight more. There should be a senate congress brawl and maybe get somehting done for a change.
Der Spiegel calls out NeoCon Nuland:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5aa_1424226994
If any body of lawmakers are fighting each other physically, they are not making any more laws. A win-win for the sheep.
"Oh, and now someone has thrown an octopus out onto the ice!"
Great stuff, Turkey ! Well done ! Now, back to your corners and get your ring men to plug it so you can get right back in there ! Rock 'em Sock 'em Turkbots !
looks like John Corzine that first one
Erdogen is having his bit of corruption used for the seeds of regime change (maybe). He has gone against the US with the gas line and called out the France false flag. He even pointed at Israel.
But for comparison and grins:
Breakup Demonstrations - Seems rather common for the streets to be cleared in any US city and those who do not leave to be gassed or arrested. In the US we have "designated free speach areas" away from the official political conventions.
Search People - Stop and Frisk
Detain - Common for 24 hrs. Feds can do it forever with no charges.
Use firearms against molotov's - Yeah, you just run out in the street and throw a molotov at a gang of cops during a demonstration.
Firearms against rocks - That just happened here.
When the secret police decide not to protect Erdogan anymore it will be over. The time is coming.
And yet the article doesnt mention that "someone" didnt want the skirmish videotaped....as is clear at the end of the video... hmmm.. that is as telling as the point of the article itself
Wonder what’s going on in the mind of the Nigger in the Whitehouse. Perhaps Turkey said no to increased US military based greasing the wheel payment upcharge. Turkey may just not want to renew US contract and open airspace..
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/17/256930/turkey-says-its-reached-accord.html
Too much viagra for these old bastards
This is the guy that Russia wants to do business with that has the blood of 200,000 Syrians on his hands and is caught in an intercepted phone conversation with his military advisors calling for a cross-border "false-flag" on Syria with Israel's support to finish some "more off"!
Someone needs to take Erdogan and the rest of his "party faithful" out. Bad news for Turkey.
And not a strong prospect for doing business permanently outside NATOs reach!
I can't figure Erdogan or Turkey out at all. This is a NATO country with one of the largest US airbases in the world with, as you say, blood on its hands over Syria, false flags and such. Then this year gets a pipeline deal with Russia, jails its central banker, and brawls in parliament over the rights of its citizens. I'm not entirely convinced that Turkey has pivoted towards the East and may even be problematic for the Russians in the future.
Maybe Putin serves people other than who you have assumed he served. Maybe Putin's character is not as he presents it to be.
Maybe Putin (or his approved replacement) will betray the common russian people just as he has betrayed Iraq, Libya, Syria etc...
Or maybe Putin is just dealing with these low lifes for profit. Regardless, Putin has betrayed Assad/Syria and does nothing to prevent Turkey from facilitating the murder of the people of Syria.
I'm not entirely convinced that Turkey has pivoted towards the East and may even be problematic for the Russians in the future.
Ditto YH
If I were the Russian Federation I'd be growing eyes in the back of my head if they are making deals.
Old relationships rekindle slowly and should. I don't think the "charge of the light birgades" and the Ottoman's support of the British has worked it's way out even after 161 years. Turkey's relationship to the U.S. and Israel is too close and I've been wondering from the time Erdogan made his very public anti-U.S. NATO statements if it was genuine or simply to get information.
I'll believe it when I see the Erdogan government or his replacement demanding an exit of U.S. assets from Istanbul and Incirlik.
If I were Russia I'd be making certain that my discussions with Turkey at this point are "just that".
Turks like to play both sides. It's their way.
Erdogan (and Turkey) play all side: NATO/USA/RUSSIA/ISIS/KURDS/SAUDI ARABIA for his own interest...
+1
"Turkey" is not a person and "Erdogan" is just a guy.
http://www.henrymakow.com/turkeys_donmeh_are_illuminati.html
Hadn't seen this before d
Thx
You need to remember that the US changes regimes with colour movements now. They don't much like the present Turkish regime these days. Erdogan knows this.
These days, the US promoting democracy, is purely to allow their well oiled regime change machine, to operate.
These days, the US promoting democracy, is purely to allow their well oiled regime change machine, to operate.
PG
Lets just see how that "well oiled regime change machine" likes it when Greece and Turkey among others tell the U.S. Navy and Air Force that it will be leaving with it's assets at a date and time to be determined by the people and it's government(s)?!!!
All hail! Emperor Erdogan! Wait a minute the emperor has no clothes...
Maybe they just need jobs...
I think an Aussie rules football match needs to be arranged between the Turkish and Ukrainian politicians.
Erdogan is a strong supporter of Hassan al-Banna and the entire Muslim Brotherhood ideology. This attempt at changing the nature of the government of Turkery is little more than an Islamacist takeover. It also explains the increase in "Islamic education" and the generalized abuse of women etc.
Great - that's all Europe needs right now Ottoman empire 2.0 I wonder if he thinks he can become the new Caliph and integrateTurkey into IS. He's just built an 1100 room palace for himself - the worlds biggest - says a lot about how he thinks.
You can thank Steve Jobs and the Apple Team for having such a bold vision!!!
Is the program running according to a plan for collective human race self-improvement / [r]evolution
Where is Baron Munchhausen when you need him?
Will the moors be knocking down buildings in Venice again in the next decades?
Imagine Mercan Congre$$ getting aroused.....nah just kidding...too horrible to contemplate
Burn it to the ground, it's the only way.
I hope and pray to see the day that our congress can get things done like this.
At least these guys have some passion.
Our 535 chimps are too tired from carting their payola bags around in wheelbarrows.
Is it possible that Turkey's bona fide opposition party(s) are actively representing the best interests of those whom elected them to office?
This is a sure sign of how far down the precipitous slope to Third World Police Statism we have fallen.
Wow! I wish I could understand Turkish.
It just looks like somebody dropped a penny on the floor.