Turkish Islamist opposition MP Hasan Bitmez, who on Tuesday collapsed from a massive heart attack in the parliament chamber immediately after he warned that President Recep Erdogan’s ruling party “will not be able to escape the wrath of Allah” for continuing to trade with Israel during the war in Gaza, died Thursday after having lingered in a hospital for two days, Reuters reports.
It’s not clear if any of Bitmez’s Islamist MPs or other religious/political figures in Turkey or elsewhere in the Muslim world are reconsidering invoking the wrath of Allah on Israel and/or their domestic political opponents given the curious timing. More likely they’re just going to chalk it up to the two blocked veins in his heart that struck him down and leave it there. Science is good enough this time.