Egypts’s former President Morsi buried in Cairo, Erdogan claims that his death wasn’t normal
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Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi was buried on Tuesday in eastern Cairo, his son said. Morsi had collapsed in court on Monday and died shortly after.
He was buried at dawn alongside other senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, his son, Ahmed Morsi, said on his Facebook page.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attended a prayer service in Istanbul for former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who collapsed and died during a court session in Cairo on Monday.
Turkey’s religious authority, the Diyanet, had called for absentee funeral prayers to be held on Tuesday throughout the country’s 81 provinces.
At Istanbul’s Fatih mosque, where thousands joined in prayers, Erdogan called Morsi a “martyr” and blamed Egypt’s “tyrants” for his death, adding that he doesn’t believe that Morsi died of natural causes. “I don’t believe that this was a normal death,” Erdogan, a key supporter of Morsi, said.
Photo People hold picture of former ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his funeral prayer in absentia in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 June 2019. According to media reports, Morsi, who was the first democratically elected president of Egypt, died after collapsing in court while on trial for espionage on 17 June 2019.
