A man was detained at a campaign rally for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in İstanbul on Sunday after getting into a verbal altercation with Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
Campaigning for March 31 local elections, Soylu said if the ruling AKP) was defeated at the polls, Turkey’s governors would not be able to walk the streets in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast and the responsibility for the events would fall on opposition parties, namely the Felicity (Saadet) Party, Good (İYİ) Party and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and finally the Gülen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), both of which are designated as terrorist organisations by Ankara.
A man in the crowd protested Soylu's statements by clapping his hands.
"In June 24 elections, the Saadet (Felicity) Party sold this nation out! Get out of here, you impertinent!" Soylu told the man. "You carried the PKK into the parliament. Why did you associate with the PKK if you cannot deal with it?"
Police detained the man immediately by Soylu's orders.
The man who was arrested is Yıldıray Çamlıca and a member of the Saadet (Felicity) Party.