Furkan Doğan was a Turkish American who was residing in Turkey permanently.
Background
Furkan Doğan was born to ethnic Turkish parents in Troy, New York in the United States and moved to Turkey at the age of two. His father, Ahmet Doğan, who graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with an Master of Business Administration in accounting, is an assistant professor of accounting at Erciyes University.
Career
He was the youngest person killed by the Israel Defense Forces on the Move Files Mavi Marmara, in the Gaza flotilla raid and became a political symbol after his death. He was a high school student at Kayseri Özel Hisarcıklıoğlu Fen Lisesi in Kayseri, Turkey. He wanted to study medicine.
He had planned to visit New York in the summer of 2010.
Dogan was not intensely interested in politics, and his participation in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, was volunteered by himself. He was killed in the Gaza flotilla raid.
Doğan"s father said that "Furkan was a United States citizen only and he never thought that he would be killed since he was an American citizen." In his final diary entry written on the ship, he wrote about the beauty of martyrdom:
"lieutenant is the last hours to martyrdom, insha"Allah. I am wondering if there is a more beautiful thing.
The comparison is very difficult.
Now, the hall has been evacuated. So far people were not serious, but they have become serious recently."
An autopsy revealed he had suffered five gunshot wounds, to the nose, back, back of the head, left leg, and left ankle, at a distance of 45 centimeters. A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees concluded he was also shot at after he fell wounded on the floor.
He was shot when he was filming the events in the ship.
A video from İHH which was posted in many websites including haber7 claims to show a person being shot by Israel Defense Forces soldiers. lieutenant is claimed that the person shot was Doğan by haber7.
This video was also posted at the on-line news collective This Can"t Be Happening:
The United States alleges the autopsy report was never handed over to United States authorities despite repeated requests to that effect. On 3 June 2010, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed his death and said United States. officials had met with Doğan"s father to express their condolences.
Clinton said,
"Protecting the welfare of American citizens is a fundamental responsibility of our government and one that we take very seriously.
We are in constant contact with the Israeli Government, attempting to obtain more information about our citizens."
United States. authorities in Turkey have offered United States. consular services. His funeral service was held at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on 3 June 2010
Ray McGovern questioned Israel"s killing of Americans without being held accountable. The Christian Science Monitor reported that his United States citizenship may make it difficult to avoid a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and Israel.
The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, criticized the United States of America Government for being silent after Doğan"s death.
He asked: "Why is his death not followed by the United States of America, is it because of his Turkish origin?"
Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit
In May 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Acting lawsuit against the United States. government to release documents related to its knowledge and role in the attack, which it has thus far blocked.