“Days left to live” for Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev

Similar reports have surfaced in the Turkish press suggesting that Aliyev, who is being cared for at an Ankara military hospital, was suffering from terminal illness, but Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Ankara has denied this, saying that the president was in normal condition and not in intensive care. Aliyev checked into Ankara’s Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) last month for what Azeri officials described as a medical checkup, and has not been seen in public since.