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Headline: Fight breaks out in Turkish Parliament

Caption: An opposition legislator has been hospitalised following a brawl that broke out in Turkey’s parliament during a tense debate over next year’s budget. Images show dozens of lawmakers from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party and from opposition parties engaged in a tussle. Some legislators threw punches at each other, while others tried to pull their fighting colleagues apart. The private DHA news agency says Huseyin Ors, a lawmaker from the opposition Good Party, was punched in the face. A lawmaker who is a doctor by training tended to Ors, who was then taken to a hospital by ambulance, DHA reports. Ors suffers from heart problems and was placed under emergency care as a precaution. Fighting is a frequent occurrence in Turkey’s parliament. It was not immediately known what caused Tuesday’s brawl, but tensions are running high ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for June.

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PersonInImage: Hüseyin Örs, Zafer Işık