Published September 14,2024
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday pledged to hunt justice for slain Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and over 41,000 Gazan civilians, evaluating the scenario in Gaza to the infamous 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
At a joint press convention with Denis Becirovic, chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on the day Eygi was laid to relaxation in her hometown in Didim, Türkiye, Erdoğan mentioned: “In courts of law, we will hold Israel accountable for the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, along with over 41,000 of our Gazan brothers and sisters.”
Stressing the severity of the scenario, he mentioned: “Today we are witnessing in Gaza and (other) occupied Palestinian territories a massacre similar to the one carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.”
Erdoğan additionally added that the “perpetrators of Gaza,” just like the individuals behind the Srebrenica genocide, can be held accountable in worldwide courts.
Becirovic, for his half, mentioned: “The genocide in Gaza is actually the greatest disgrace in the world.”
– SHOT TO DEATH DURING PEACEFUL PROTEST
Shortly earlier than her demise, Eygi traveled to the West Bank to assist Palestinian resistance in opposition to Israeli occupation, in response to the International Solidarity Movement.
On Sept. 3, Eygi went to watch a protest within the city of Beita in Nablus, to face in opposition to the unlawful Israeli settlements there.
The motion reported that on Sept. 6 Eygi was deliberately focused and killed by an Israeli sniper standing on a close-by rooftop.
Eyewitnesses reported that when she was shot by the sniper, Eygi was removed from the protest space. She was taken to a Palestinian hospital however regardless of medical doctors’ greatest efforts, couldn’t be saved.
Turkish diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem coordinated the switch of her physique from Tel Aviv to Baku, Azerbaijan earlier than her last journey to Türkiye.
Turkish authorities acquired Eygi’s physique on Friday and transported it to the Izmir Forensic Medicine Institution for an post-mortem.
Türkiye on Thursday additionally launched an investigation into the killing underneath home regulation.
The post-mortem discovered {that a} bullet entered via her decrease ear space.
Eygi was shot within the head throughout a peaceable protest and died later in a hospital.
The post-mortem by the Izmir Forensic Medicine Institution has discovered that her explanation for demise was a cranium fracture, mind hemorrhage, and mind tissue harm. There was a bullet entry wound however no exit wound, and metallic fragments from the bullet are being analyzed. The post-mortem procedures are ongoing.
Source: www.anews.com.tr