Ralph G. Loeffler: Remembering Furkan Dogan

Ralph G. Loeffler writing from Kayseri, Turkey, Live from Palestine, 18 October 2010

Furkan Dogan. I’m going to say Furkan Dogan so often that it will sound, as it rightly should, just as “American” as John Smith or Bill Jones. Furkan Dogan was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on 31 May a hail of Israeli bullets ended his life on the Mavi Marmara Turkish humanitarian aid ship. Furkan was filming the Israeli assault when an Israeli commando fired his first shot pointblank hitting Furkan squarely in the face. Four more shots were fired into Furkan leaving him dead and unrecognizable.

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