The death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is not normal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday.
"There are concerns whether it [Mursi's death] was normal or whether there is another situation at hand. I do not believe that this was a normal death," Erdoğan said following the funeral prayer held in abstentia in Istanbul.
"They are too scared to even deliver Mursi to his family."
Libya’s Chairman of the High Council of State Khalid al-Mishri slammed the current putschist regime of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying that Mursi’s death was the result of a years-long assassination operation.”
“The assassination began with a coup against the legitimate administration, continued with him being confined to a solitary cell, and finally ended with his being deprived of his basic rights, including medical treatment,” al-Mishri stated.
Morsi, who passed away Monday while in a courtroom facing charges many believed to be politically-motivated, became the president of Egypt in June 2012, after former leader Hosni Mubarak stepped down following mass demonstrations.
After serving in office for a year, he was deposed at the hands of a military uprising led by Egypt’s current leader Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi.
Since his ouster, Egypt’s post-coup authorities have waged a relentless crackdown on dissent, killing hundreds of the former president’s supporters and throwing thousands in jail on “violence” charges.
Shortly after the coup, Morsi’s party, the Muslim Brotherhood was officially designated a “terrorist organization” in Egypt.
In the aftermath of the military overthrow, then-U.S. President Barack Obama refrained from using “coup” to describe Sisi’s actions, and supported a transition of power in Egypt's government.
