On Wednesday, there was a fight in Turkey’s parliament as members of the ruling AK Party and the opposition disagreed about the appointment of a controversial person to the Justice Ministry in a Cabinet reshuffle.
Opposition lawmakers tried to stop Akın Gürlek from taking the oath of office in parliament. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chose him to be the head of the judiciary. As tempers rose, lawmakers were seen pushing and even punching each other.
As the head prosecutor in Istanbul, Gürlek oversaw high-profile cases against numerous members of the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). The opposition has long argued that these convictions were politically motivated.
Later, the former prosecutor was spotted taking the oath in front of lawmakers from the ruling party. Erdoğan also made Mustafa Çiftçi, the governor of the eastern province of Erzurum, the interior minister.
Corruption investigations have led to the arrests of hundreds of officials from towns ruled by the CHP. One of them was Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, who many people think is Erdoğan’s main competitor. He was imprisoned last year.
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