Turkey's former president and prime minister Suleyman Demirel died in the nation's capital Ankara on Wednesday, the hospital where he was treated confirmed. He was 90. Demirel served as prime minister seven times throughout the 1960s and 1970s before becoming president from 1993-2000. The influential political figure died of heart failure after being treated for a severe respiratory tract infection, according to the Guven hospital where he was treated.
