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BRITISH-KURDISH film-maker Mehmet Aksoy’s body was returned to Britain yesterday and was welcomed by a small group of family and close friends.
Mr Aksoy was killed last month by Isis fighters in Syria, where he had been working with the press office of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia and making a documentary about the battle for Raqqa.
More than 2,000 mourners attended an emotional memorial service for Mr Aksoy at the Kurdish Community Centre in north London earlier this month.
He travelled to northern Syria in June and went by the nom de guerre Firaz Dag in honour of his uncle, who was killed by the Turkish security forces in the 1990s.
Mr Aksoy was editor-in-chief of the Kurdish Question website and had recently produced a film covering the first-ever elections in the region known by Kurds as Rojava.
His funeral is expected to take place later this month.
