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Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range!!!
Mourners by the coffins of dead activists: Turkey is furious but has not risked a complete break with Israel.
Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal!! [READ MORE]
Israeli soldiers aiming a gun on the deck of a Turkish ship, after Israeli soldiers boarded the vessel in international waters off the Gaza coast on May 31, 2010. /AP
Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range.
The results revealed that a 60-year-old man, Ibrahim Bilgen, was shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back.
A 19-year-old, named as Fulkan Dogan, who also has US citizenship, was shot five times from less than 45cm, in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back.
Furkan Dogan, 19, student at Kayseri High School
Two other men were shot four times, and five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back, said Yalcin Buyuk, vice-chairman of the council of forensic medicine.Thousands of relatives and supporters greeted the Turkish activists at the airport. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP
The findings emerged as more survivors gave their accounts of the raids. Ismail Patel, the chairman of Leicester-based pro-Palestinian group Friends of al-Aqsa, who returned to Britain today, told how he witnessed some of the fatal shootings and claimed that Israel had operated a "shoot to kill policy".Erdogan visited the people who were injured.
German activists who were on an aid ship bound for Gaza raided by Israeli commandos said that nobody on board was armed!!
German activists :'We wanted to bring aid to Gaza'
Kutlu Tiryaki was a captain of another vessel in the flotilla. "We continuously told them we did not have weapons, we came here to bring humanitarian help and not to fight," he said.Sheik Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic movement in Israel is escorted into court after being detained from one of the ships of the Gaza-bound Flotilla raided by Israel Monday.
Grigoropoulos, who insisted the ship was full of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza "and nothing more", said that, once detained, the human rights activists were not allowed to contact a lawyer or the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv.
An activist who was seized during the aid-convoy raid bound for Gaza gestures upon his arrival in Jordan on June 2.
Grigoropoulos added: "They didn't let us go to the toilet, eat or drink water and throughout they videoed us. They confiscated everything, mobile phones, laptops, cameras and personal effects. They only allowed us to keep our papers."
Gaza aid flotilla activists arrive at the Jordanian border bridge with the West Bank yesterday after being deported from Israel
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution setting up an independent fact-finding mission to investigate the incident. The resolution condemned what it called the "outrageous attack" on the flotilla and called for the lifting of the blockade on Gaza.
Think not of those who are killed in the Way of Allâh as dead.
Nay, they are alive, with their Lord, and they have provision.They rejoice in what Allâh has bestowed upon them of His Bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve.They rejoice in a Grace and a Bounty from Allâh, and that Allâh will not waste the reward of the believers.Quran 3:169-171A brief introduction to the nine Turkish Martyrs killed on 31 May 2010, by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Turkish vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara, as it attempted to transport humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.
1. Ibrahim Bilgen, 61, an electrical engineer from Siirt.
Member of the Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. Married with 6 children.
2. Ali Haydar Bengi, 39, from Diyarbakir. Graduate of Al-Azhar University,
Cairo (Department of Arabic literature). Married with 4 children.
3. Cevdet Kiliçlar, 38, a journalist from Kayseri.
Married with two children.
4. Çetin Topçuoglu, 54, from Adana. Former amateur soccer player and taekwondo champion,
who coached Turkey's national taekwondo team. Married with one son.
5. Necdet Yildirim, 32, from Malatya.
Married with a three-year-old daughter.
(Dogan News Agency)
6. Fahri Yaldiz, 43, a firefighter who worked for the Municipality of Adiyaman.
Married with four children.
Married with seven children.
8. Cengiz Akyüz, 41, from Iskenderun.
Married with children aged 14, 12 and nine.
9. Furkan Dogan, 19, student at Kayseri High School. Son of Dr. Ahmet Dogan,
Assoc Prof at Erciyes University. A Turkish-American dual national, with two siblings.
British Survivor tells of Israeli assault on Gaza aid ship!
An activist, arrested aboard a Gaza-bound ship, places his hands against the window of
a bus as it leaves Ella prison in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, June 2, 2010.
p/s: sangat merindui syahid................