Obituary: Gamze Gunoral

Miss Gunoral was on her way to her language college in Hammersmith

The only Turkish national to die in the bombings has been laid to rest in Istanbul.

Gamze Gunoral, 24, left her aunt's house in Totteridge, north London, on the morning of 7 July.

On her way to her language college in Hammersmith, west London, she died on a Piccadilly line Tube train near Russell Square.

Osman Hokelek, an administrator at the Active Learning School, said: "This is tragic, really shocking. She was a lovely girl."

Born in Istanbul and an only child, Miss Gunoral graduated from the University of Marmara, Istanbul, with a degree in insurance and banking.

She worked in the finance department of Gisad, Turkey's largest textile export company, and decided to come to London to improve her English.

Miss Gunoral had been a student in the UK since May and had just settled in and made some close friends, Ms Hokelek said.

She was looking forward to returning to Turkey with much improved English and better equipped to continue her career.

Her mother took her body back to her homeland, where she was buried in a ceremony in Istanbul.