The journalist filed a lawsuit against the MP Kemal Enginhurt of the Democratic Party.
Chaos prevailed on air when parliamentarian and journalist they caught hands, in a show of the channel TV100 on Saturday night, at Turkey.
Blood flared in the studio when the discussion turned to the issue of judicial independence and jailed Kurdish leader Selahettin Demirtas, as well as pro-regime Osman Kavala.
“The police and the state belong to us,” MP and deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Kemal Enginhurt said emphatically, and when journalist Latif Simsek told him not to say such things, the nationalist MP moved threateningly towards him. Then, together with his bodyguard, they began to beat the journalist severely.
The show was interrupted, however, the fight continued, resulting in the journalist fainting from the blows.
After a twenty-minute break the show resumed without him, with the moderator and station management condemning the violence and apologizing.
The journalist filed a lawsuit against MP Kemal Enginhurt, who was a former Gray Wolves executive.
The prosecutor ordered the bodyguard to be remanded in custody, but not the MP, who is covered by immunity.
The Democratic Party to which the member of parliament who took part in the incident in the previous election belongs was part of the alliance against Erdogan.
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