List of participants of the Gaza flotilla

There were 688 participants on the Gaza flotilla
Gaza flotilla raid
The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea...

from 41 nations. The flotilla was raided and captured by Israeli naval forces on 31 May 2010, when nine particioants were killed and seven IDF commandos were injured.

Notable flotilla passengers included Nobel Peace prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

winner Mairead Corrigan

Mairead Corrigan

Mairead Maguire , also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a Northern Irish peace activist. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in...

, Denis Halliday

Denis Halliday

Denis J. Halliday was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from September 1, 1997, until 1998. He is Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin....

former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Edward Peck former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım

Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım

Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım is the current president of Turkish NGO, İHH which provided humanitarian relief in Chechnya, Libya , Pakistan, China, Kashmir, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Somalia, Mauritania, Chile, the Philippines, Aceh, Myanmar, Greece, Crimea and Haiti...

, the İHH

IHH

Indian hedgehog homolog , also known as IHH, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the IHH gene.-Function:The Indian Hedgehog protein is one of three proteins in the mammalian hedgehog family, the others being desert hedgehog and Sonic hedgehog...

president, Haneen Zoubi, Israeli-Arab member of Knesset, Raed Salah

Raed Salah

Raed Salah is the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. He was born in Umm al-Fahm - an Israeli-Arab city bordering the Green Line - and was elected as the mayor of that city three times; in 1989, 1993 and 1997. He has eight children and is a former poetSalah was banned...

, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel

Islamic Movement in Israel

The Islamic Movement in Israel is a movement that aims to advocate Islam among Israeli Arabs. It operates on three levels: religious , social and anti-Zionist...

, Hilarion Capucci

Hilarion Capucci

Hilarion Capucci is the retired titular archbishop of Caesarea for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.He was ordained a priest of the Basilian Aleppian Order on 20 July, 1947. On 30 July 1965 he was appointed archbishop and consecrated...

, a retired titular archbishop previously convicted by Israel of smuggling arms to the Palestine Liberation Army.

Nationalities

These are the nationalities participated:

Nationality	No. of participants
	28
Australia	3
Azerbaijan	2
Bahrain	4
Belgium	5
	1
Brazil	1
Kingdom of Bulgaria	2
Canada	2
Cuba	1
Czech Republic	4
Egypt	3
Early Modern France	9
Germany	11
Greece	38
Indonesia	12
Republic of Ireland	9
Israel	4
Italy	6
Jordan	30
Republic of Kosovo	1
Kuwait	18
Lebanon	3
Republic of Macedonia	3
Malaysia	18
Mauritania	3
Morocco	7
Netherlands	2
New Zealand	1
Norway	3
Oman	1
Pakistan	3
Qatar	1
Serbia	1
South Africa	1
Sweden	11
Syria	3
Turkey	380
United Kingdom	31
United States	11
Yemen	4

Gaza flotilla participants killed in the raid

Name	Nationality	Age	Known for	Ship
İbrahim Bilgen İbrahim Bilgen İbrahim Bilgen was a Turkish politician, electrical engineer and activist. He was born in Batman, Turkey and killed by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza flotilla raid.Bilgen's family migrated to Turkey from Mosul, Iraq...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	61	Turkish politician and candidate for mayor of Siirt Siirt - External links :* * * *... . He was killed in the raid.	MV Mavi Marmara
Çetin Topçuoğlu Çetin Topçuoğlu Çetin Topçuoglu was a former Turkish taekwondo athlete.Çetin Topçuoglu was a Turkey and European taekwondo champion...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	53	Former National level Turkish taekwondo athlete and national coach. He was killed in the raid.	MV Mavi Marmara
Furkan Doğan Furkan Doğan Furkan Doğan was a Turkish American who was residing in Turkey permanently. He was the youngest person killed on MV Mavi Marmara ship, in the Gaza flotilla raid and became a political symbol after his death...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	19	American of Turkish origin traveling with a US passport, high-school student, living in Turkey, killed. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, the agency said. His father says that he only holds American United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... citizenship, contrary to some media reports.	MV Mavi Marmara
Cengiz Akyüz	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	41	from Iskenderun, port city of southern Turkey, killed in the raid.	MV Mavi Marmara
Ali Heyder Bengi	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	39	a Kurdish man from Diyarbakir, chairman of Aydınlık Yarınlar İçin Hak ve Özgürlükler Eğitim Kültür ve Dayanışma Derneği (AYDER), graduate of Al-Azhar University Al-Azhar University Al-Azhar University is an educational institute in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970~972 as a madrasa, it is the chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world. It is the oldest degree-granting university in Egypt. In 1961 non-religious subjects were added to its curriculum.It is... , owner of a telephone repair shop, married and father of four children, shot 6 times (once in the abdomen) and killed in the raid, in his funeral in Diyarbakır people shouted "Sehidin Namirin" slogan in Kurdish.	MV Mavi Marmara
Cevdet Kılıçlar Cevdet Kılıçlar Cevdet Kılıçlar was a Turkish journalist and photographer from Kayseri. He had been a correspondent of the Islamist daily newspaper Anadolu'da Vakit. He was an aid worker and responsible for website of The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	38	a journalist born in the central Turkish town of Kayseri, Anatolian said. He was also employed by the İHH in Istanbul. Killed in the raid	MV Mavi Marmara
Cengiz Songür	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	47	from İzmir Izmir Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey... . Killed in the raid	MV Mavi Marmara
Fahri Yaldız	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	43	a firefighter and father of four from the southern town of Adıyaman, Anatolian reported. His brother Habip told the agency that Fahri had long wanted to die fighting in Israel to become a "martyr." Killed by the IDF in the raid.	MV Mavi Marmara
Necdet Yıldırım	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	32	originally from Malatya, worked for the İHH IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation or İHH is an Islamic Turkish NGO active in more than 100 countries.Established in 1992 and officially registered in Istanbul in 1995, İHH... . Killed by the IDF in the raid.	MV Mavi Marmara

People on board the raided Gaza flotilla ships, excluding those killed

Name	Nationality	Known for	Ship
Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım is the current president of Turkish NGO, İHH which provided humanitarian relief in Chechnya, Libya , Pakistan, China, Kashmir, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Somalia, Mauritania, Chile, the Philippines, Aceh, Myanmar, Greece, Crimea and Haiti...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	İHH president	MV Mavi Marmara
Erdinç Tekir Erdinç Tekir Erdinç Tekir , is Turkish member of the IHH of Abkhaz origin. He was previously convicted for his participation at the Black Sea hostage crisis...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	An Abkhaz Abkhaz people The Abkhaz or Abkhazians are a Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. A large Abkhazian diaspora population resides in Turkey, the origins of which lie in the emigration from the Caucasus in the late 19th century known as Muhajirism... descent Turkish Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... IHH activist and hijacker convicted for the Black Sea hostage crisis Black Sea hostage crisis The Black Sea hostage crisis took place January 16–19, 1996 on the Black Sea during the First Chechen War. The Panamanian-registered ferry Avrasaya with 177 passengers and 55 crew members on board was hijacked in a Turkish port of Trabzon by an international armed group, which threatened to kill... .	MV Mavi Marmara
Uğur Süleyman Sönmez	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	a 46 year old Turkish citizen from Ankara Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million.... , neighbor of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdogan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara... . Sönmez was shot in the raid and now he is in coma Coma In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as... .	MV Mavi Marmara
Kate Geraghty Kate Geraghty Kate Geraghty is an Australian photojournalist, for The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age.Geraghty started her photographic profession at Albury-Wodonga's The Border Mail in 1997. Then she freelanced in Cambodia and Australia...	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	The Sydney Morning Herald The Sydney Morning Herald The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The... photographer	Challenger 1
Paul McGeough Paul McGeough Paul McGeough is an Irish Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, specialising in Middle Eastern affairs....	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	The Sydney Morning Herald The Sydney Morning Herald The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The... journalist	Challenger 1
Iara Lee Iara Lee Iara Lee is a Korean Brazilian film producer and director based in New York City. She is better known as the director of the documentaries Synthetic Pleasures and Modulations, as well as for her involvement with the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla", in which at least nine pro-Palestinian activists were...	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	Brazilian filmmaker	MV Mavi Marmara
Svetoslav Ivanov Svetoslav Ivanov Svetoslav Ivanov is a Bulgarian journalist, for bTV.-Gaza Flotilla:He covered the Gaza flotilla raid, with cameraman, Valentiv Vassilev.The ship was huge. It had 540 Turkish passengers on board. The captains decided before the beginning of the trip that it would lead the flotilla...	Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	BTV reporter	MV Mavi Marmara
Annette Groth Annette Groth Annette Groth is a German politician from Baden-Wuerttemberg.-Career :From 1974 to 1979, she studied at the Free University of Berlin, in development sociology, economics and business administration and international politics...	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Member of the German Bundestag Bundestag The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...	MV Mavi Marmara
Inge Höger Inge Höger Inge Höger is a German politician.She represents the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag.She was from 2005 to 2006 deputy chairman of The Left .- Career :...	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Member of the German Bundestag Bundestag The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...	MV Mavi Marmara
Norman Paech Norman Paech Norman Paech is a retired German professor and politician of The Left .-Career:He studied law at Tübingen, Munich, Paris and Hamburg, which he completed in 1962 with the first legal state examination....	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Former member of the German Bundestag Bundestag The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...	MV Mavi Marmara
Haneen Zoubi	Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...	Israeli-Arab member of Knesset, representing the Balad party. She is the first woman to be elected to the Knesset on an Arab party's list.	MV Mavi Marmara
Raed Salah Raed Salah Raed Salah is the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. He was born in Umm al-Fahm - an Israeli-Arab city bordering the Green Line - and was elected as the mayor of that city three times; in 1989, 1993 and 1997. He has eight children and is a former poetSalah was banned...	Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...	Leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel Islamic Movement in Israel The Islamic Movement in Israel is a movement that aims to advocate Islam among Israeli Arabs. It operates on three levels: religious , social and anti-Zionist... , previously convicted by Israeli court for raising money for Hamas Hamas Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...	MV Mavi Marmara
Wael Saqqa Wael Saqqa Wael Saqqa is a Jordanian architect, and Chairman of the Jordan Engineering Association.The Jordan Engineers Association established an "international commission" to help rebuild Gaza.A JEA delegation assessed the situation in Gaza....	Jordan Jordan Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...	Head of the Jordanian delegation and the ex-president of the Jordanian Engineers Association Jordanian Engineers Association The Jordanian Engineers Association is a trade union of engineers in Jordan, and claims to be the largest trade union in the country...	MV Mavi Marmara
Waleed Al-Tabtabaie Waleed Al-Tabtabaie Waleed AlـTabtabaie is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district. Born in 1964-4-4, Al-Tabtabaie obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar and was an assistant professor at Kuwait University before being elected to the National Assembly in 1996...	Kuwait Kuwait The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...	Member of Kuwaiti parliament	MV Mavi Marmara
Talat Hussain	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...	Journalist and executive director AAJ TV AAJ TV AAJ TV is a 24 hour Pakistani news television channel. Aaj in English means "Today".-Channel and its Programmes:AAJ News was initially started on March 23, 2005 by the Business Recorder Group...	MV Mavi Marmara
Hilarion Capucci Hilarion Capucci Hilarion Capucci is the retired titular archbishop of Caesarea for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.He was ordained a priest of the Basilian Aleppian Order on 20 July, 1947. On 30 July 1965 he was appointed archbishop and consecrated...	Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....	Retired titular archbishop for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Melkite Greek Catholic Church The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of... , previously convicted by an Israeli court of using smuggling arms to the Palestine Liberation Army and sentenced to 12 years in prison.	MV Mavi Marmara
Jamal Elshayyal Jamal Elshayyal Jamal Elshayyal is a British news producer for Al Jazeera English. He was a student at School of Oriental and African Studies.In 2006, he joined Al Jazeera on the Middle East Desk....	Qatar Qatar Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...	News producer for Al Jazeera English	MV Mavi Marmara
Edda Manga Edda Manga Edda Manga is a Swedish historian of ideas, speaker and debator. Manga won the Clioprize in 2004 for her doctorate thesis Gudomliga uppenbarelser och demoniska samlag . She was a summer host on Sveriges Radio P1 during Sommar i P1 on 14 June 2004.-Gaza flotilla:Manga is married to historian...	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Swedish historian	MV Mavi Marmara
Henning Mankell Henning Mankell Henning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Swedish author	MS Sofia
Dror Feiler Dror Feiler Dror Elimelech Feiler is a Swedish-Israeli musician, artist and leftist activist. He has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is married to the artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler...	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Swedish-Israeli artist	MS Sofia
Mattias Gardell Mattias Gardell Hans Bertil Mattias Gardell is a Swedish scholar of comparative religion. He is the current holder of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden....	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Swedish historian	MS Sofia
Mehmet Kaplan Mehmet Kaplan Mehmet Güner Kaplan is a member of the Swedish parliament aligned with the Swedish Green Party and former spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Sweden and Young Muslims of Sweden...	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Turkish-born member of the Parliament of Sweden Parliament of Sweden The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...	MS Sofia
Hakan Albayrak Hakan Albayrak Hakan Albayrak is a Turkish journalist.He completed his secondary education in Turkey. He was a writer, in 1983, Ring magazine, the Nihat magazine, Ihlas News Agency, and Yeni Şafak newspaper...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Sinan Albayrak Sinan Albayrak Sinan Albayrak is a Turkish TV and film actor.He graduated from Hacettepe University State Conservatory.His brother is Hakan Albayrak.-Gaza flotilla:He was on board of the MV Mavi Marmara in the Gaza flotilla raid...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish actor	MV Mavi Marmara
Elif Akkuş	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish television journalist reporting the Flotilla raid for TRT TRT -Broadcasting:* Tamil Radio and Television, a former Tamil language satellite channel* Televisora Regional del Táchira, a Venezuelan regional television network based in the city of San Cristóbal in Táchira...	MV Mavi Marmara
Mediha Olgun	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist and author of the book, "Mavi Marmara'da ne oldu" on Gaza Flotilla raid	MV Mavi Marmara
Hassan Ghani Hassan Ghani Hassan Ghani, is a Scottish broadcast journalist and documentary film-maker, based in London. He has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, Somalia, Turkey and Egypt during the uprising....	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Scottish journalist and documentary maker Press TV Press TV Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by the Iranian government. Its headquarters are located in Tehran, Iran, with bureaux in Beirut , Damascus , London , Seoul and Washington DC .... reporter	MV Mavi Marmara
Theresa McDermott Theresa McDermott Theresa McDermott is a postal worker from Edinburgh who has been involved in the Free Gaza Movement.During 2005-06 she was detained by Israeli authorities while trying to attend a conference in the West Bank on non-violent resistance...	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Scottish activist found in Ramleh prison four days after an attempted Gaza aid mission in 2009	Challenger 1
Ismail Patel Ismail Patel Ismail Patel is a British optician, and founder of Friends of Al-Aqsa, in Leicester, about 1995.He is an advisory board member of the Conflicts Forum, director of IslamExpo, and a member of the Special Advisory Board of Clear Conscience....	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Friends of Al-Aqsa	MV Mavi Marmara
Fatimah Mahmadi	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Member of the organization Viva Palestina Viva Palestina Viva Palestina is a British-based registered charity which came into being in January 2009 with the initial intention of running a humanitarian aid convoy to the Gaza Strip... which the IDF claims attempted to smuggle forbidden electronic components into the Gaza Strip.	MV Mavi Marmara
Huwaida Arraf Huwaida Arraf Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian Christian human rights activist, lawyer and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement , a Palestinian-led organization focused on assisting the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict using non-violent protests...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement International Solidarity Movement The International Solidarity Movement is an organization focused on assisting the Palestinian cause in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict using nonviolent protests. It was founded in 2001 by Ghassan Andoni, a Palestinian activist; Neta Golan, an Israeli activist; Huwaida Arraf, a...	Challenger 1
Joe Meadors Joe Meadors Joe Meadors is an American former U.S. Navy signalman, who survived Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967.In 2010, he was a passenger on the Sfedoni, in the Gaza flotilla.He is married to Jean Meadors; they live in Corpus Christi, Texas....	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	A survivor of the USS Liberty incident USS Liberty incident The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, , by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members , wounded 170 crew members, and...	Sfendoni
Kenneth O'Keefe Kenneth O'Keefe Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe is an Irish-American activist and former US Marine. He led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... and United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Former U.S. Marine United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States... and currently a peace and justice activist. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) claimed that O'Keefe was linked to terrorist organizations, that he was an extremist who whose goal was to reach Gaza in order to help train and establish Hamas Hamas Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades... commando units.	MV Mavi Marmara
Edward Peck Edward Peck Edward L. Peck is a retired career United States diplomat who served thirty-two-years in the U.S. Foreign Service .-Early life and career:...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.... and Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...	Sfendoni
Ann Wright Ann Wright Mary Ann Wright is a former United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Former U.S. Army colonel and former US diplomat. In 2003 she resigned her State Department post to protest the war in Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....	Challenger 1
Scott Hamann	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Video producer	Challenger 1
Petr Zavadil	Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	Czech TV reporter	Sfendoni
Jan Línek	Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	Czech TV cameraman	Sfendoni
Matthias Jochheim	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	German representative of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear war	MV Mavi Marmara
Nadel El Sakka	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Representative of the Palestinian community in Germany	MV Mavi Marmara
Aris Chatzistefanou	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	Skai 100.3 Skai 100.3 Skai 100.3 is a Greek informational and entertainment radio station, the larger in audience in Greece, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, sports, culture, and comedy.... journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Katerina Kitidi	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	TVXS.gr news website journalist	Sfendoni
Maria Psara	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	Ethnos (see List of Greek newspapers) journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Giorgos Klontzas	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	professional diver and pilot	Challenger 2
Abbas Nasser	Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...	Aljazeera news journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Lubna Masarwa	State of Palestine State of Palestine Palestine , officially declared as the State of Palestine , is a state that was proclaimed in exile in Algiers on 15 November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council adopted the unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Independence...	activist	MV Mavi Marmara
Ewa Jasiewicz	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	activist and freelance journalist	Challanger 1
Yasser Muhammad Sabag	Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.... , Bosnia	According to Serbian news sources, a Syrian intelligence officer serving as the liaison officer between Damascus and Tehran's intelligence networks in the Balkans. In the past, Sabag was in charge of intelligence in the Abu Nidal Abu Nidal Abu Nidal , born Sabri Khalil al-Banna , was the founder of Fatah–The Revolutionary Council , a militant Palestinian group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization... militant organization.	MV Mavi Marmara
Srdan Stojiljkovic	Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...	Serbian Cameraman	MV Mavi Marmara
Sümeyye Ertekin	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Ayşe Sarıoğlu	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist, joined Flotilla Free Media after the Gaza flotilla raid	MV Mavi Marmara
Mustafa Özcan	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Ümit Sönmez	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Murat Palavar	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Turkish journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Ali Ekber Yaratılmış	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Former Turkish taekwondo athlete and national referee. He was wounded in the raid but not dead contrary to the Israeli sources' claim.	MV Mavi Marmara
Çigdem Topçuoğlu	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	wife of Çetin Topçuoglu, was also aboard the Mavi Marmara, but survived	MV Mavi Marmara
Ahmet Varol	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Journalist and author	MV Mavi Marmara
Ibrahim Sediyani	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Journalist and author	MV Mavi Marmara
Rıdvan Kaya	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Author	MV Mavi Marmara
Ramazan Kayan	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Author	MV Mavi Marmara
Abbas Al Lawati	Oman Oman Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...	Dubai Dubai Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi... -based Gulf News Gulf News Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates with a December 2009 BPA audited circulation of over 117,036 qualified copies... journalist	MV Mavi Marmara
Alex Harrison	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	a 31-year-old British woman	Challenger 1
Kevin Ovenden Kevin Ovenden Kevin Ovenden is a British, left-wing, political activist and currently a member of the Respect Party's leadership, and an organiser of Viva Palestina.-Biography:Ovenden was for many years a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party....	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Viva Palestina charity	MV Mavi Marmara
Parveen Yaqub	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	39, from Huddersfield, a council worker	MV Mavi Marmara.
Denis Healey	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	captain of Challenger 1, skippered one of the previous flotillas	Challenger 1
Gehad Sukker	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	a pizza shop manager from Altrincham Altrincham Altrincham is a market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on flat ground south of the River Mersey about southwest of Manchester city centre, south-southwest of Sale and east of Warrington... in Cheshire Cheshire Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...	MV Mavi Marmara
David Schermerhorn	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	80, an American film producer	Challenger 1
Gene St. Onge	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Oakland, CA-based civil/structural engineer, who is working with Palestinian engineers to rebuild housing destroyed in Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza	Sfendoni
Paul Larudee Paul Larudee Paul Larudee, PhD is a San Francisco Bay Area human rights advocate for justice in Israel and Palestine. He works with the International Solidarity Movement and the Free Palestine Movement, and was cofounder of the Free Gaza Movement...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	El Cerrito, CA, a piano tuner and FPM co-founder, who also co-founded The Free Gaza Movement, the movement that first broke the siege of Gaza in 2008	Sfendoni
Janet Kobren	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	American Jewish, retired math teacher and co-founder of the California-based Free Palestine Movement	Sfendoni
Kathy Sheetz	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	a retired nurse from Richmond, CA, and Woods Hole, MA	Challenger 1
Khalid Turaani	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	who was founder and executive director of the former American Muslims for Jerusalem and now lives in Dubai.	MV Mavi Marmara
Nicola Enchmarch	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...	London employee of Viva Palestina Viva Palestina Viva Palestina is a British-based registered charity which came into being in January 2009 with the initial intention of running a humanitarian aid convoy to the Gaza Strip...	MV Mavi Marmara
Amin Abu Rashid Amin Abu Rashid Amin Abu Rashid, nicknamed "Amin Abu-Ibrahim" , is a Palestinian Dutch national. He has lived in Amsterdam and in Rotterdam, in The Netherlands....	Netherland Netherland Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...	He is considered by Israeli intelligence to be the chief Hamas fundraiser in Western Europe, and allegedly had close ties with the senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh was a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military affiliate of Hamas... . According to the IHH publications, he lost his hand "in the struggle against the occupation". In interviews, he declared that he was planning to confront the IDF soldiers.	MV Mavi Marmara
Valentin Vassilev	Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	BTV cameraman	MV Mavi Marmara
Shane Dillon	Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Crew	Challanger 1
Fintan Lane	Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Irish historian and activist	Challanger 1
Fiachra O Luain	Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Activist	Challenger 1
Ahmad Umimon	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Alleged by the IDF to be an operative of Hamas	MV Mavi Marmara

MV Rachel Corrie Passengers

Some people who were onboard MV Rachel Corrie

MV Rachel Corrie

MV Rachel Corrie is a 499 GT coaster owned and operated by the Free Gaza Movement. The ship is named in honour of Rachel Corrie, a former member of the International Solidarity Movement...

are:

Name	Nationality	Known for
Mairead Corrigan Mairead Corrigan Mairead Maguire , also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a Northern Irish peace activist. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in...	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who... laureate
Denis Halliday Denis Halliday Denis J. Halliday was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from September 1, 1997, until 1998. He is Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin....	Ireland Republic of Ireland Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...	UN Assistant Secretary-General
Mohd Nizar Zakaria Mohd Nizar Zakaria Mohd Nizar Zakaria is a Malaysian politician and is currently the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Parit constituency in Perak. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation party in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition....	Malaysia	member of Parliament of Malaysia Parliament of Malaysia The Parliament of Malaysia is the national legislature of Malaysia, based on the Westminster system. The bicameral parliament consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The King as the Head of State is the third component of Parliament....

Nationalities

Gaza flotilla participants killed in the raid

People on board the raided Gaza flotilla ships, excluding those killed

MV Rachel Corrie Passengers

See also