Just as citizens were resisting, many imams were on the streets, on the night of July 15th. An Imam of the Religious Affairs Administration Rıfat Börekçi Training Center, Ali Alıtkan became a martyr from FETÖ traitors' bullets, on the night of the coup attempt.
Married and father of a daughter, 32-year-old İmam, found out about the events from TV on the night of July 15th. Ali left his family at home and went out around 23:00 upon President Erdoğan’s call. He set off to the General Staff Headquarters with his brother. Telling his brother to wait near the scene, he went to a spot where conflicts were heavy.
“One person from one house is enough”
Ali’s brother Hamdi, talked about that night, “When we were getting in the car, he said to me ‘One person from one house is enough my brother, stay with the children.’ And I told him, ‘If we are going to die, we will die together; if we survive, we will come back together.’ Then my brother said, ‘If we die tonight, there will be so many people to pray after us,’ and he drove the car very fast. My brother left the car in the middle of the road, in a way to block tanks near Kızılay. As tanks were running over people and cars, we lost each other. I am a health official, so I went to the hospital and helped the wounded. I thought I could see my brother among the wounded I was treating, yet, at the same time, I was praying not to see him like that. My brother jumped in front of a tank and tried to stop the traitors in front of the General Staff Building at 00:01. A malicious soldier killed my brother with a bullet to his heart. My brother smiled, recited God’s name and became a martyr.”
The moments in which Ali was martyred were recorded second-by-second. Wearing a smile on his face at the moment he was martyred, his video is unforgettable.
Ali was buried in Mamak Ortaköy Cemetery on July 16th.
The name Martyr Ali Alıtkan was given to a sports high school in Mamak, Ankara and to an imam hatip middle school in Çorlu, Tekirdağ.
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