The family of Turkish-American activist Aisha Noor Azgi Aygi, who was killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank, hung the Turkish flag on her grandfather’s house in the Didim district of Aydın province in western Turkey.
After receiving the news of Aisha Noor’s death yesterday, her relatives flocked to the house of her grandfather, Sherif Aygi, who is 96 years old.
Her family and relatives did not tell Aisha Noor’s grandfather the sad news for fear of his health being affected negatively, so they did not set up a mourning tent.
Yilmaz Aygi, Aisha Noor’s uncle who hung the Turkish flags on his father’s house (a Turkish custom where the flag is hung on the house of the martyr), said that his brother’s family moved to live in the United States 25 years ago when Aisha Noor was one year old.
He added that Aisha Noor used to visit her family and relatives often and was in Didim 15 days ago.
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He added that his niece was a sensitive person towards oppression and injustice around the world and visited the Arakan region in Myanmar where Rohingya Muslims were subjected to massacres.
She also went to Italy for immigrants and volunteered everywhere she felt there was a need for such a thing, according to her uncle.
Aygi said that his niece raised the Palestinian flag when she graduated from university in the United States, and she was thinking about academic work and attended meetings at the United Nations.
He explained that he spoke with his brother (Aisha Noor’s father) on the phone yesterday, Friday, and that they are planning to bury her body in her hometown of Didim.
On Friday, the Israeli army killed activist Aisha Noor with live bullets while she was participating in an event denouncing settlements in the town of Beita in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank.
