{"id":84796,"date":"2026-02-12T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84796"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:25:14","slug":"brawl-erupts-in-turkeys-parliament-over-justice-minister-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/brawl-erupts-in-turkeys-parliament-over-justice-minister-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawl erupts in Turkey\u2019s parliament over justice minister appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/c52a7d5\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2877x1915+0+1\/resize\/320x213!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fd8%2F2a%2F58dfe28b5fb865b590f6b4fc228a%2F47012d37e0cf458a9d487cd287d1174e\" alt=\"Turkey's ruling party and opposition lawmakers clash over the appointment of Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Akin Gurlek as justice minister at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Ugur Yildirim\/DIA Photo via AP)\" width=\"581\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A brawl erupted in Turkey\u2019s parliament on Wednesday after lawmakers from the ruling party and the opposition clashed over the appointment of a controversial figure to the Justice Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/turkey-politics-erdogan-cabinet-reshuffle-gurlek-3288c44b6b3eb8e341c3dd34fd0f0b2b\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A brawl erupted in Turkey\u2019s parliament on Wednesday after lawmakers from the ruling party and the opposition clashed over the appointment of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Brawl-Turkey-2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84798,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84796\/revisions\/84798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}