Furkan Doğan
WHAT HAPPENED
Furkan Doğan, a 19-year-old dual U.S.-Turkish citizen born in Troy, New York, was shot and killed on 31 May 2010 when Israeli naval commandos raided the Turkish ship MV Mavi Marmara, part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in international waters of the eastern Mediterranean; he was one of nine passengers killed. According to forensic accounts, Doğan was filming with a small video camera when he was first shot and sustained five gunshot wounds, including a close-range shot to the face reportedly received while he lay wounded. A UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission concluded in September 2010 that his killing could be characterized as an "extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution"; Israel maintained its soldiers acted in self-defense after meeting violent resistance aboard the ship, and Doğan's family later sued former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak in U.S. federal court.
TESTIMONY
“Furkan was the kind of boy having a huge heart … very generous and always trying to help to the people that are in need.” — Ahmet Doğan, Furkan’s father
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