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Turkiye seeks int’l arrest warrants over US-Turkish citizen killed in West Bank

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Palestinian activists lift a banner and portraits of slain
Turkiye has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American shot by Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank and will request international arrest warrants, Ankara said today according to Reuters. The body of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi will arrive in Turkiye tomorrow, the Foreign Ministry said. She was expected to be buried in the western Turkish city of Didim, on the Aegean coast. Israel has taken responsibility for the death of Eygi, who was killed last Friday while taking part in a peaceful protest against illegal Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. The Foreign Ministry said she “was deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians.” “We will […]

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