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Vader van gedode deelnemer Gazavloot vraagt VS om onderzoek

24/02/2011
Professor Ahmed Dogan, de vader van Furkan, een 19-jarige Amerikaanse deelnemer aan de Gaza-vrijheidsvloot, die vorig jaar door toedoen van het Israelische leger werd gedood op de Mavi Marmara terwijl die op internationale wateren voer, heeft de Amerikaanse overheid gevraagd een onderzoek in te stellen. Furkan was van Turkse origine.

 

Like the other people on board the Mavi Marmara, says Professor Ahmet Doğan, 'we did not expect Israelis to attack the ship in the middle of the night.'

 

Professor Ahmet Doğan, whose 19-year-old son Furkan was killed aboard during the Israeli army raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla from Turkey in May, is in Washington in an attempt to convince American officials to open an investigation into the raid.

Furkan was an American citizen who was born in the U.S. His father will be meeting with Congress members Tuesday and on Wednesday speak with members of the State Depart-

 

 

                    Professor Ahmet Doğan

 

 

ment and the Ministry of Justice. The Mavi Marmara was part of six-boat flotilla that was heading for Gaza from Turkey. Israeli naval troops boarded the boat on May 31, 2010. The activists on board the boat resisted, and nine people were killed.

"Furkan was an American citizen of Turkish origin and the American government hasn’t done anything for him - so I have come to seek justice for him here," Professor Doğan tells Haaretz. "I want the United States to demand justice for its citizen, and support decisions related to this [injustice] at the UN. We are very disappointed by the way the U.S. has handled the events until now, because in theory the U.S. is supposed to view all of its citizens equally."

Doğan believes the U.S. gives more weight to its relationship with Israel than to the welfare of its own citizens.

 

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