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Mourners gathered in southwest Türkiye Saturday for the funeral of a U.S.-Turkish activist shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The killing last week of 26-year-old Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and infuriated Türkiye, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza.

The body of a Turkish-American activist was received with a solemn ceremony at the airport in Istanbul on Friday, arriving a week after she was shot in the head by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.

The body of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank last week, arrived in Istanbul via Azerbaijan on Friday.

A Turkish Airlines plane brought Eygi's body to the Istanbul Airport, where a ceremony was held.

The family of a Turkish-American activist killed during a protest in the occupied West Bank is expecting to bury her in Türkiye, her uncle told AFP on Wednesday.

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was shot dead last week while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank town of Beita.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on June 15 criticized the government's way of dealing with environmental issues and urged it to take immediate measures against the marine mucilage, or "sea snot," blanketing shorelines across Turkey's Marmara Sea.

Turkey made up the story about its coast guard taking down a Greek flag on an islet in the southeastern Aegean after a Turkish helicopter was chased off from the area of Ro, Alternate Defense Minister Fotis Kouvelis said on Tuesday.

The Turkish coastguard has removed a Greek flag that had been raised on an islet in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of the Turkish resort town of Didim, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday.

A Turkish court has arrested two Czechs over membership of the Syrian Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), a senior Czech official said on Aug. 2.

Turkish security forces detained the 30-year-old man and 24-year-old woman -Miroslav Farkas and Marketa Vselichova—in the southeastern province of Şırnak that borders Syria and Iraq on Nov. 13, 2016.

A former British soldier who fought against Islamic State in Syria has been arrested with his girlfriend and her mother on holiday in Turkey after being accused of posting pro-Kurdish propaganda on Facebook.

The number of migrants who drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast on March 6 has risen to 25 and Turkish authorities have detained two human smugglers over the incident.

A Turkish official, who previously put the toll at 18, confirmed the latest figure, saying the coastguard had found seven more bodies, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on March 7.