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Turkish MP who suffered heart attack during speech in parliament dies

Turkish opposition Felicity Party lawmaker Hasan Bitmez criticises the government's policy towards Israel in a speech in parliament on December 12, 2023, before suffering a heart attack and collapsing [Reuters]

A Turkish opposition legislator who suffered a heart attack and collapsed in parliament during a speech railing against the government’s policy towards Israel has died.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday that Hasan Bitmez, a 54-year-old member of the Islamist Saadet Partisi, or Felicity Party, had died in an Ankara hospital two days after the incident.

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