Turkey’s parliament witnessed fistfights among the deputies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) while approving articles from the constitutional amendment package to shift the existing parliamentary system to an executive presidency.
AKP’s deputy Ahmet Hamdi Çamlı, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s former official chauffeur, held a press conference regarding the stormy debates in the parliament.
According to daily Birgün’s report, Çamlı swore at CHP members calling them “mad dogs” and “bastard traitors”, and compared CHP’s parliamentary group leader Engin Altay to the assassin police officer who had killed Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov.
‘LIKE MAD DOGS’
“We ignore those who ignore the nation’s sovereignty. We can speak their language. One of them bit our friend’s leg like a mad dog,” Çamlı said.
AKP’s deputies claimed that CHP’s Eren Erdem bit AKP’s Muhammet Balta’s leg during the stormy fight in the parliament. With reference to the alleged incident, some AKP members entered the parliament with a banner that reads, “No dogs allowed”.
However, CHP’s forensic science specialist Canan Kaftancıoğlu said on her Twitter account that the alleged biting wound was an old wound, implying that AKP members were lying.
Continuing to swear at CHP members during the press conference Çamlı accused CHP’s Eren Erdem of being pro-Iran and pro-CIA.
COMPARING CHP’S GROUP LEADER WITH AMBASSADOR KARLOV’S MURDERER
Çamlı continued the press meeting: “We will continue this historical struggle to the very end. [Implying the July 15 coup attempt] TBMM (The Grand National Assembly of Turkey) was bombed, the dogs of white man [implying the US] bombed TBMM. I declare here that we will never allow them even if they massacre 80 millions fellows of the homeland.”
Çamlı compared CHP’s parliamentary group leader Engin Altay with Mevlüt Altıntaş, the Turkish roit police, who assassinated Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov on December 19.
Implying İsmet İnönü, the second President of Turkey after the death of founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Çamlı concluded, “‘Milli Şef’ (‘National Chief’-official title of İnönü) corresponded with Führer [Hitler], having had a Führer moustache. CHP is the forefather of all malignancies in this country."
