Funeral for slain Turkish American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi draws hundreds
by Guardian staff and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6QQX3)
Family members and political leaders gather in Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim to mourn activist slain by IDF
Hundreds of people waving Turkish and Palestinian flags gathered on Saturday for the funeral of Ayenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Cevdet Ylmaz, Turkey's vice-president; Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister; Numan Kurtulmu, the parliament speaker; and Ozgur Ozel, the main opposition leader from the Republican People's party (CHP) were among mourners at the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim.
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