Martyr Mehmet Çetin, a presidential security police officer, was martyred after the attack on the hotel in Marmaris, during the coup attempt. FETÖ assassins, who arrived there shortly after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan left the hotel he was staying in in Marmaris, attacked the hotel with 3 military helicopters. The 39-year-old Mehmet Çetin, who was martyred after the conflict, was married and a father of two children, Emir and Sümeyye.
Ceremony at the Presidential Palace
A ceremony was held for Mehmet Çetin at the Presidential Palace. Çetin’s body covered with Turkish flag, which was brought by escort vehicles, was taken from funeral coach to the ceremony area over the shoulders of Special Operations police. Çetin’s family, relatives, and colleagues attended the ceremony. Then his body was buried in his hometown, the village of Yoncalı in Uşak.
He wasn't able to move into his brand new house in Ankara
It is reported that Martyr Çetin had bought a new house in Ankara, and had planned to move there before the attack. His relatives stated as following: “He bought a house with what he had pinched together and saved, and he was planning to move there. However, he fell a martyr before settling in his new home.”
The martyr’s name was given to an intersection bridge in his hometown, Uşak. Also, a coppice forest formed in the martyr’s hometown village of Yoncalı by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs was named the “15 Temmuz Şehidi Mehmet Çetin” and Imam Hatip middle schools in Muğla and Uşak were named “15 Temmuz Şehitleri” after Mehmet Çetin.
