Ömer Can Açıkgöz was studying his second year at the Law School in TOBB University in Beştepe, Ankara. 21-year-old Ömer went out on to the streets upon President Erdoğan’s call on the night of the July 15th coup attempt. After going the Presidential Palace, he was shot in the chest from a helicopter and was taken into surgery at the hospital but fell a martyr.
Ömer did not anticipate that those treacherous soldiers, who attempted to strike a coup that night, would drop bombs and bullets on their own nation. Fahrettin Açıkgöz, Ömer Can’s father, who initially thought that soldiers wouldn’t go any further than using gas grenades, warned his son, “They are firing at civilians, be careful.” Being shot in the chest, by bullets fired from helicopters, by putschist traitors and wounded half an hour after this warning, in front of the Presidential Complex, Açıkgöz was immediately hospitalized. Ömer was bleeding internally when he went into surgery and was martyred at 04:50 in the morning.
“Martyrdom fits him”
“I called my son around 10:30 and asked what was going on in Ankara. And my son told me that jets were flying and that he went out with his friends to see what was going on. Around 12:50, I called my son back and asked him not to go out, however, when he replied, ‘no father, we are already out’, I told him to be careful. I called him afterward yet, couldn’t reach him. They raked them as soon as they arrived in front of the palace; bullets hit my son in several places. His becoming a martyr is very sublime. We are praying for our homeland. He was very religious, martyrdom fits him very well,” said Ömer’s father, expressing his pride for his son.
Martyr Ömer Can Açıkgöz’s was buried in Sinop, on Monday, July 18th.
