Turkish Minister Dies of Heart Attack After Saying Israel Will ‘Suffer Allah’s Wrath’

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announces the death of lawmaker Hasan Bitmez, local media reports, two days after he collapsed in parliament, suffering a heart attack at the end of a livestreamed parliamentary speech in which he slammed Israel and said it wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah.”

Hasan Bitmez, 53, of the conservative Felicity Party, delivered an address at the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament, ending it by saying that “we can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history,” and by addressing the Jewish state: “You will not escape the wrath of Allah.”

He then said, “I salute you all,” immediately before collapsing to the ground at the podium, with his head hitting the floor.

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