Turkey’s Terror Crimes Investigation Bureau has filed charges of “premeditated murder” against the Israeli soldiers who deliberately targeted a Turkish-American activist. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was fatally shot in the head while peacefully protesting the expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Anadol...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Representative Pramila Jayapal sharply criticized the Biden administration Tuesday for the lack of movement toward an independent investigation into the killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi last month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. “It has been 53 days since Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was ki...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of 103 US lawmakers has called on the Biden administration to conduct an independent investigation into the killing of Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank earlier this month. In a letter sent on Tuesday to President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, [&hel...
U.S. envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has called Israel’s murder of Turkish American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank a “horrific tragedy.” She said Washington will demand that Israel provide more details from its investigation into the incident. Thomas-Greenfield also noted that President Joe Biden has ...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – The autopsy procedures for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli soldiers last Friday, were completed in Izmir, Türkiye’s western province. Turkish authorities received Eygi’s body on Friday at Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport and transported it to the Izmir Forensic Medicine Institution for a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye is actively working to facilitate the handover of the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, to her family for burial, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. “We continue the necessary work to deliver the body of our citizen Aysenur [&hell...
SEATTLE, Washington (AA) – Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Seattle for a Turkish-American activist who was killed in an Israeli attack during an anti-occupation protest in the occupied West Bank. The demonstration at Westlake Park came one day after Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed by Israeli forces while participating in...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned Israel’s killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi as an attempt to intimidate and suppress supporters of Palestinian causes. In a statement, the PLO’s department of expatriates said the killing of Eygi highlights the brutality and violence ...
