Islamist MP Hasan Bitmez died today in a hospital, two days after having a heart attack in Parliament while warning that Israel would suffer the "wrath of Allah" for its bombings against civilians in Gaza.
The death of the opposition legislator, from the Saadet party, was announced by the Minister of Health himself, Fahrettin Koca, who indicated that Bitmez's condition began to deteriorate last night.
Bitmez, 53, collapsed while giving a fiery speech on the floor of the Turkish Parliament, in which he denounced what he called the "atrocities" of Israel for its bombings in Gaza in punishment for Hamas attacks last year. October.
"You may be able to hide from our conscience, but not from history... You will not escape the wrath of Allah," he said before collapsing and falling to the ground.
The deputy was very critical of Israel and the Islamist AKP party of the Turkish president, also an Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Before collapsing, he had also criticized the AKP, considering that it is doing nothing to stop the war between Israel and the radical Islamist group Hamas, except condemning Israel in a purely rhetorical way.
