Aysenur Ezgi Eygi will likely be laid to relaxation in in her household’s residence city Didim, in western Turkey.
A whole bunch of mourners in Turkey have gathered for funeral prayers forward of the burial of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi who was killed by Israeli troops within the occupied West Financial institution.
The killing final week of 26-year-old Eygi sparked worldwide condemnation towards Israel. She was shot within the head whereas collaborating in an indication on September 6 towards unlawful Israeli settlements.
On Saturday, members of the family, mates and supporters congregated in Eygi’s residence city of Didim, in western Turkey.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Didim, stated that for days, Eygi’s household have been receiving guests from Turkey, the USA and different components of the world, as they awaited the arrival of her stays.
“You’ll be able to see the disbelief of their faces that Aysenur isn’t any extra,” Serdar stated, including that tight safety measures had been in place.
Eygi’s coffin was delivered to the coastal Aegean city on Saturday following a martyrs’ ceremony at Istanbul airport on Friday.
She was a frequent customer to Didim, and her household stated they wished her to be buried there, the place her grandfather lives and her grandmother has been laid to relaxation.
Her coffin was taken to the household’s residence after which to a mosque in Didim.
Eygi’s 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 Turkish state information company Anadolu.
‘Intentionally focused’
Turkey stated this week it was investigating her demise and pressed the United Nations for an impartial inquiry.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to make sure “that Aysenur Ezgi’s demise doesn’t go unpunished”.
US President Joe Biden referred to as for Israel to offer “full accountability” for Eygi’s demise.
The Israeli army has stated it was probably Eygi was hit “unintentionally” by forces whereas they had been responding to a “violent riot” in Beita, close to Nablus.
However rising proof contradicts that, with witnesses saying Israeli troopers intentionally killed her.
Among the many witnesses to her killing was an Italian activist who rode with Eygi within the ambulance as she was transferred to Beita after which to Nablus, the place she was pronounced lifeless.
“We had been clearly seen to the military, there was nothing taking place subsequent to us … it was a shoot to kill,” the Italian activist stated.
Eygi’s household requested the USA to launch an impartial inquiry into her killing, saying an Israeli probe was not “satisfactory”.
The United Nations stated Eygi had been collaborating in a “peaceable anti-settlement protest” in Beita, the scene of weekly demonstrations, when she was killed.
Eygi was a member of the Worldwide Solidarity Motion (ISM), a bunch that has been protesting towards Israel’s occupation, and arrived within the West Financial institution a couple of days earlier than she died.
