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

Second autopsy to be performed on Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi before funeral in her family’s home town

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. Continue reading...