Mourners will collect in southwest Turkey Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist shot useless whereas protesting Israeli settlements within the West Financial institution.
The killing final week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked worldwide condemnation and infuriated Turkey, additional escalating tensions over the conflict in Gaza that started with Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel.
Eygi’s physique, wrapped within the Turkish flag, arrived at its last resting place within the Aegean city of Didim on Friday following a martyrs’ ceremony at Istanbul’s airport.
Eygi was a frequent customer to the seaside resort.
The household needed Eygi to be buried in Didim, the place her grandfather lives and her grandmother has been laid to relaxation.
Ankara stated this week it was probing her dying and pressed the United Nations for an unbiased inquiry.
Turkey can be planning to subject worldwide arrest warrants for these liable for Eygi’s dying relying on the findings of its investigation.
The Israeli army has stated it was possible Eygi was hit “unintentionally” by forces whereas they had been responding to a “violent riot”.
A big crowd is anticipated on the funeral, together with members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted AKP celebration, in addition to activists advocating the Palestinian trigger.
The burial is scheduled to happen after noon prayers.
– ‘Search justice’-
The younger girl’s physique arrived in Istanbul on Friday morning earlier than being transferred to Turkey’s third-biggest metropolis Izmir, the place an post-mortem was carried out.
Turkish officers stated the findings from the post-mortem could be used as proof for Turkey’s personal probe.
Eygi was shot within the head whereas collaborating in an indication on September 6 within the northern a part of the occupied West Financial institution, close to Nablus.
Her mom Rabia Birden on Friday urged Turkish officers to pursue justice.
“The one factor I ask of our state is to hunt justice for my daughter,” she was quoted as saying by Anadolu information company.
Erdogan, devoted to the Palestinian trigger, has vowed to make sure “that Aysenur Ezgi’s dying doesn’t go unpunished”.
The United Nations stated Eygi had been collaborating in a “peaceable anti-settlement protest” in Beita, the scene of weekly demonstrations.
Israeli settlements, the place about 490,000 folks stay within the West Financial institution, are unlawful underneath worldwide regulation.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday known as for Israel to offer “full accountability” for Eygi’s dying.
The Israeli military has acknowledged opening fireplace within the space and has stated it’s wanting into the case.
An post-mortem carried out by three Palestinian medical doctors pointed to a direct hit that handed by the sufferer’s cranium.
“Aysenur was a really particular individual. She was delicate to human rights, to nature, to the whole lot,” stated her father Mehmet Suat Eygi, on Thursday exterior the household residence in Didim.
