Turkish MP who suffered heart attack during speech in parliament dies

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. "You allow ships to go to Israel, and you shamelessly call it trade. "Even if you escape the torment of history, you will not be able to escape the wrath of God," he said at the end of the 20-minute speech before collapsing at the lectern. Other members of the Grand National Assembly rushed forward to help, and Koca said on Tuesday that Bitmez had been "resuscitated in parliament and transferred within 20 minutes to hospital" where medical equipment had kept him alive.