Turkey buries activist killed by Israeli army as airstrikes in Gaza kill 14

A Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was buried in her hometown in Turkey on Saturday, as thousands lined the streets and anti-Israel sentiment surges in the country as a conflict threatens to spill over into the Middle East.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Seattle woman, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier on September 6 during a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting.

Thousands of people lined the streets of the Turkish Aegean coastal town of Didim as Eygi was laid to rest in a coffin draped in a Turkish flag taken from her family home. A portrait of her in her graduation gown was placed against the coffin as people paid their respects.

Her body was earlier transferred from the hospital to her family home and the Central Mosque of Didim.

Turkey condemned the killing and announced it would conduct its own investigation into her death. “We will not leave our daughter’s blood on the ground and we demand responsibility and accountability for this murder,” Numan Kurtulmus, the speaker of the Turkish parliament, told relatives at the funeral.