Man jailed for insulting Turkish flag found hanged in ward: Prison

A perpetrator, imprisoned for his attempt to take down a Turkish flag from a police station in Istanbul's Gaziosmanpasa district, was found dead by hanging in his ward in Metris prison late Tuesday.

Ali Uçkun, 28, hanged himself with a clothes line last night in the ward, said the prison officials.

An investigation was launched into his suicide attempt while Uçkun's body was taken to the Forensic Medicine Institute for a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of his death.

The perpetrator was injured by being shot when attempting to remove the Turkish flag from the police station in Gaziosmanpasa, while repeating pro-Kurdish slogans. Uçkun was taken to the training and research Haseki hospital by the police after sustaining leg injuries.

He was arrested on June 29 for publicly insulting the Turkish flag which means sovereignty of the state and making propaganda for the terrorist organization, when he was brought before the court after being questioned at the police station.