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.
Detained Turkish colonel dies while under coup arrest
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