Aysenur Ezgi Eygi will be put to rest in her household’s home town Didim, in western Turkey.
Numerous mourners in Turkey have actually collected for funeral prayers ahead of the burial of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi who was eliminated by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
The killing recently of 26-year-old Eygi stimulated worldwide condemnation versus Israel. She was shot in the head while participating in a presentation on September 6 versus prohibited Israeli settlements.
On Saturday, relative, good friends and advocates gathered together in Eygi’s home town of Didim, in western Turkey.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Didim, stated that for days, Eygi’s household have actually been getting visitors from Turkey, the United States and other parts of the world, as they waited for the arrival of her remains.
“You can see the shock in their faces that Aysenur disappears,” Serdar stated, including that tight security procedures remained in location with leading federal government authorities attending her funerak.
Eygi’s casket was given the seaside Aegean town on Saturday following a martyrs’ event at Istanbul airport on Friday.
She was a regular visitor to Didim, and her household stated they desired her to be buried there, where her grandpa lives and her granny has actually been put to rest.
Her casket was required to the household’s home and after that to a mosque in Didim.
Eygi’s mom Rabia Birden on Friday advised Turkish authorities to pursue justice.
“The only thing I ask of our state is to look for justice for my child,” she was priced quote as stating by Turkish state news company Anadolu.
‘Deliberately targeted’
“Aysenur’s blood will not fail and we will hold liable those who eliminated her in global courts,” stated Numan Kurtulmus, Turkey’s Parliament Speaker, in Didim on Saturday.
He stated the obligation for the killing “lies with Israel and its advocates”.
Turkey stated today it was examining her death and pushed the United Nations for an independent query.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has actually guaranteed to guarantee “that Aysenur Ezgi’s death does not go unpunished”.
United States President Joe Biden required Israel to supply “complete responsibility” for Eygi’s death.
The Israeli armed force has stated it was most likely Eygi was struck “accidentally” by forces while they were reacting to a “violent riot” in Beita, near Nablus.
Growing proof opposes that, with witnesses stating Israeli soldiers intentionally eliminated her.
Amongst the witnesses to her killing was an Italian activist who rode with Eygi in the ambulance as she was moved to Beita and after that to Nablus, where she was noticable dead.
“We were plainly noticeable to the army, there was absolutely nothing occurring beside us … it was a shoot to eliminate,” the Italian activist stated.
Eygi’s household asked the United States to release an independent query into her killing, stating an Israeli probe was not “appropriate”.
The United Nations stated Eygi had actually been participating in a “serene anti-settlement demonstration” in Beita, the scene of weekly presentations, when she was eliminated.
Eygi belonged to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that has actually been opposing versus Israel’s profession, and showed up in the West Bank a couple of days before she passed away.
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