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Ruth Michaelson in Istanbul

Body of activist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank returns to Turkey

Turkish soldiers carry the coffin of Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
Turkish soldiers carry the coffin of the Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi after its arrival at Adnan Menderes airport in İzmir. Photograph: Republican People’s party/EPA

The body of the Turkish-American activist Ayşenur 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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