Body of activist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank returns to Turkey
by Ruth Michaelson in Istanbul from World news | The Guardian on (#6QPZG)
Second autopsy to be performed on Ayenur Ezgi Eygi before funeral in her family's home town
The body of the slain Turkish-American activist Ayenur Ezgi Eygi has landed in Istanbul to continue to its final resting place in her family's home town on the Aegean coast, with the coffin carried by a procession of Turkish honour guard soldiers.
An autopsy report conducted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Nablus lists Eygi's cause of death as a brain haemorrhage after a bullet penetrated her skull, as the 26-year-old attended a pro-Palestine protest in nearby Beita.
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