Staff were left cleaning blood stains from the floor of Turkey’s parliament following a 30-minute brawl involving dozens of lawmakers. Fisticuffs in the chamber are not at all unusual in the Turkish legislature, but—as shown by a bne IntelliNews report published at the end of July following an attack led by an ex-transport minister on an opposition MP—there have been some particularly ugly episodes lately. The latest physical confrontation, which left at least two MPs injured, with head wounds, broke out on August 16 as lawmakers argued over a jailed opposition deputy, Can Atalay, 48, who won …
