Turkey's former EU minister calls funeral attendees necrophiliacs
12 March 2014 /İSTANBUL, TODAY'S ZAMAN
Turkey's former chief negotiator and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış called those who went to the funeral of Berkin Elvan, a teenage boy who died after nine months in a coma as a result of being hit in the head by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests last year, necrophiliacs, a comment that has drawn wide denunciation and vehement criticism.
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