Funerals and prayers for nine activists, who died in Israel's Gaza flotilla raid , were held in Istanbul on Thursday. The youngest of the nine activists killed, a 19-year-old high school student Furkan Dogan, was shot in the head and chest. He was born in Troy, New York, but moved to Turkey when he was two. He will be buried in his family's hometown of Kayseri in central Turkey on Friday. A United States State Department spokesman said it would probe the death of the Turkish-American killed, but said the FBI were not involved "at this point." Abdullah Gül said Israel committed "one of the biggest mistakes ever in its history," and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Israel's actions "a historic mistake." The leader of the Islamic charity IHH spoke to the crowd, saying, "The whole world supports us. We will shake the foundations of Zionism". The activists had attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza . The Irish ship MV Rachel Corrie arriving some time this weekend, will be the next ship to challenge the blockade.
Funerals and prayers for nine activists, who died in Israel's , were held in Istanbul on Thursday. The youngest of the nine activists killed, a 19-year-old high school student Furkan Dogan, was shot in the head and chest. He was born in New York, but moved to Turkey when he was two. He will be buried in his family's hometown of in central Turkey on Friday. A United States State Department spokesman said it would probe the death of the Turkish-American killed, but said the FBI were not involved "at this point." Abdullah Gül said Israel committed "one of the biggest mistakes ever in its history," and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Israel's actions "a historic mistake." The leader of the Islamic charity spoke to the crowd, saying, "The whole world supports us. We will shake the foundations of Zionism". The activists had attempted to break the Israeli . The Irish ship arriving some time this weekend, will be the next ship to challenge the blockade.
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