Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was buried in her hometown in Turkey with thousands attending after she was killed in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli sniper.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old from Seattle who held US and Turkish citizenship, was shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on September 6 while protesting Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has bid farewell to Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, saying the American-Turkish activist was “deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli soldiers” in the occupied West Bank.
“We will work with all our might to ensure that the perpetrators of this inhumane attack are brought to justice,” he wrote on X.
He also slammed the “hypocritical silence of those who act as human rights advocates” in what appeared to be a remark directed at the US, which unlike Turkey refused to open its own investigation into the killing of Eygi, who was a citizen of both countries.
Turkey conducted an autopsy on the body before its burial today, and officials said the results would be brought before international courts to pursue accountability.
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