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Incident occurs in AKP central office

12 February 2009 14:40 (UTC +04:00)

Ankara-APA. An incident occurred in AKP central office, APA reports quoting Haberturk news agency.
Dissatisfaction occurred while determining candidates for Agri municipality in partyâ€™s election headquarters. AKP activist Mustafa Tasdemir, member of Agri municipality was not satisfied with his place among the candidates in the list during the meeting participated by MPs elected from Agri. He asked why his name was not written above. As a result of it the incident occurred between MPs and Tasdemir. They moved towards the elevator on third floor after the meeting. They began to quarrel again. Tasdemir insulted MPs, where one woman MP was among them. Afterwards, MPs punched him on the nose throwing at him. Tasdemir was injured. Other MPs stopped the quarrel interfering in the process. Party leadership stopped entrance to the office to impede covering the incident by the media. Tasdemir will be disciplined for his action.
Municipal elections will be held in Turkey on March 29.