Turkey's main opposition leader on Tuesday lashed out at the circumstances surrounding the funeral of Egypt's democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi who died in a courtroom.
"He lost his life in a courtroom. We wish God's mercy on him. We would have wished Mohamed Morsi to be buried with a presidential ceremony," Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party (CHP) said.
"He was buried secretly, in a hurry, in the presence of only his family. I would like to express that I do not find this right in terms of our democracy culture, beliefs and morals," Kilicdaroglu added.
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, died Monday during a court appearance to face espionage charges.
A leading member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group, he won the country’s first free presidential election in 2012.
After only one year in office, he was ousted and imprisoned in a bloody military coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's then defense minister and current president.
At the time of his death, Morsi faced a host of legal charges, which he along with numerous human rights groups and independent observers said were politically motivated.
