At least five Turkish lawmakers were wounded in a brawl between Turkey’s opposing parties during a discussion on a controversial security bill that erupted early on Wednesday. Opposition legislators tried to delay the start of a debate on the controversial bill that would limit the right to protest and give police greater authority to search and arrest people. Tensions were running high even before the Parliament shut its doors to the press, removing audio and visual recorders from the room.

Ertugrul Kurkcu, a pro-Kurdish party lawmaker, said that stenographers’ chairs were thrown and two legislators were hit with the speaker’s gavel and bell. Four of the five deputies who were injured had to be hospitalized.

The meeting had to be interrupted and will continue again on Wednesday.

Critics worry that the new bill will turn Turkey into a police state, however Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan states that the new “law needs to be voted quickly and applied as soon as possible.”

This is not the first time that a brawl has erupted on talks between members of the governing AK party and main opposition People’s Republic Party concerning reforms to the judiciary. Here are scenes from the January 12 session.