Samet Uslu was martyred at the age of 26 by a bullet fired by putschists on the Bosphorus Bridge, where he went to resist the FETÖ traitor’s coup attempt. Uslu served his military service as a commando.
Uslu went out with the AK Party Üsküdar youth branch around 11:30 PM. He first went to Kısıklı and then headed to the Bosphorus Bridge with his friends. The last time he talked to his family was at 01:20 AM. When he learned that his family was sleeping, he told them, “The whole of Turkey is here fighting. How are you still sleeping?” He was shot by putschist traitors a little after his phone call. He was taken to Başkent University Hospital and did not survive.
Uslu’s body was identified by his brother in the Forensic Medicine morgue. After the funeral, the martyr was buried in Akçabat, Trabzon.
The martyr’s father, Hüseyin Uslu, said that his son, who studied in the Accounting and Tax department of the Karadeniz Technical University, served his military service in Şanlurfa as a gendarmerie commando and was discharged in November of 2015. According to his father, Samet Uslu wanted to be martyred when he was a soldier. His father continued with saying, “It was meant to be here. My son died for his country. I have nothing to say. That’s what God wanted. Losing your child is hard. It is even harder when you have so many memories.”
The name of martyr Samet Uslu was given to an Imam Hatip high school in Akçabat, Trabzon.
