Remembering Aysenur, an activist for Palestine killed by an Israeli soldier

Turkish American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head as she protested against illegal settlements.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s parents want her to be buried in Didim, Turkey, where the young Turkish-American woman was born.

The 26-year-old activist for Palestine was shot dead by Israeli troops last Friday while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements in Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Turkish officials worked for days to secure the repatriation of Aysenur’s body for a burial planned on Friday.

Aysenur, a recent graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, in the United States, was protesting against an Israeli settlement in nearby Evyatar when she was shot in the head.