Detained Turkish colonel dies while under coup arrest

Arrested retired Colonel Mehmet Haşimoğlu, who was on trial in a coup-plot case, died at Ankara’s GATA hospital yesterday, succumbing to a long-standing illness that had necessitated numerous operations, Hurriyet reports.
 
Haşimoğlu, 52, had been undergoing treatment since early July for a gallbladder infection that had begun only a few weeks after a stomach operation. 
 
Haşimoğlu's wife said he was returned to prison a mere seven days after his stomach surgery, thereby exacerbating his condition.