Funeral held for US-Turkish activist killed in West Bank

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******** held for US-Turkish activist ******* in West Bank

Hundreds of people have attended the ******** of activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a ****** US-Turkish citizen who was shot ***** in the occupied West Bank last week.

A guard of honour carried Eygi’s coffin during the ******** ceremony, which took place in her home district of Didim, in western Turkey.

******* has said it was “highly likely” the 26-year-old activist was ******* by its forces during a protest in the West Bank on 6 September. Turkey says it was an intentional ********.

Eygi’s ****** has inflamed tensions between the two countries, and several Turkish government officials, including Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, attended the ********.

Mourners carrying ************ and Turkish flags were seen crowding outside Didim’s Central Mosque as proceedings took place.

Also among the mourners were Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus and leader of the opposition *********** People’s Party (CHP), Özgür Özel.

“The blood of Ayşenur Eygi is as sacred as that of every ************ martyred, and we will follow it until the end,” Kurtulmus told reporters, according to Reuters news agency.

“As the Turkish nation, we are fully committed. As a state, we are fully committed.”

Prayers were held for Eygi in cities across Turkey, including Istanbul and the capital Ankara.

Her mother, Rabia Birden, said on Friday: “The only thing I ask of our state is to seek justice for my daughter,” according to Anadolu news agency.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) had previously said it was “

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” Eygi was “hit indirectly and unintentionally” by IDF *****, which was not “aimed at her, but aimed at the key instigator of the riot.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the ******** was “unprovoked and unjustified”.

“No-one should be shot and ******* for attending a protest, no-one should have to put their life at risk just for freely expressing their views,” Blinken told reporters shortly after the IDF released its statement.

Relations between Turkey and ******* have deteriorated since the *******-Gaza war began in October 2023.

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in May and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously labelled ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “the butcher of Gaza”.

In response to the suspension of trade, *******’s foreign minister ******* Katz accused Mr Erdogan of acting like a “dictator”.

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