Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus and foremost opposition Republican Of us’s Earn together (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel had been amongst mourners on the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim
Reuters
15 September, 2024, 01:10 pm
Closing modified: 15 September, 2024, 01:54 pm
A entire lot of oldsters waving Turkish and Palestinian flags gathered for the funeral on Saturday for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus and foremost opposition Republican Of us’s Earn together (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel had been amongst mourners on the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim.
A guard of honour carried the 26-year-dilapidated’s coffin, which used to be draped with a Turkish flag.
“The blood of Ayşenur Eygi is as sacred as that of every Palestinian martyred, and we can observe it until the cease. Because the Turkish nation, we are entirely committed. As a impart, we are entirely committed,” Kurtulmus told journalists.
Eygi used to be killed on Sept. 6 as she took part in a remark in opposition to settlement growth in the West Bank.
Israel has acknowledged that its troops shot the activist, nevertheless says it used to be an accidental act all the procedure in which by procedure of an illustration that turned violent.
“She used to be without lengthen centered and shot in the motivate of her left ear. May maybe well God absorb mercy on her, and can just her soul relaxation in paradise,” Kurtulmus acknowledged.
Ankara acknowledged this might maybe well maybe just search files from global arrest warrants for those to blame for what it calls an intentional killing.
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged on Wednesday the killing of Eygi used to be unacceptable and Israel need to develop extra to make certain such an occasion never happens again.
Kurtulmus acknowledged Turkey would “make certain this case is pursued until the cease”.
“We are able to help them to blame in all global courts. The day previous, we accomplished all autopsies basically based on global requirements,” he acknowledged.
Prayers had been held for Eygi in varied Turkish cities, alongside with Istanbul and Ankara.
