Special Operations Police Officer Seyit Ahmet Çakır was buried on July 18th which was also the date of his first wedding anniversary. Çakır’s daughter was only 15 days old when he was martyred by FETÖ members in the bombing attack at the Gölbaşı Special Operations Headquarters. He never even had a chance to hold his baby since his premature daughter was in an incubator.
Police officer Seyit was called back to work after the coup attempt by putschists on the night of July 15th. He got his wife’s blessings before leaving the house. After leaving the house, he called his mother in Gaizantep and told her that he was going to an operation and that he trusts her with his wife and kids.
Şeyit survived the first bombing attack on the Gölbaşı Special Operations Headquarters and martyred in the second attack. His family came to Ankara from Gaziantep on that night. The family searched all the hospitals, and found out from the list that was handed to them that Çakır was martyred and he was in the Forensic Medicine Institute.
He never held his baby
25 years old, he got married with his wife Orkide on July 18th of 2015. He was martyred on the first anniversary of his marriage. His daughter was born 15 days before the attack. He was never able to hold his premature baby as she was under care and still in an incubator in a hospital in Gaziantep on the day that he died.
Çakır went to police school at the age of 18 and started working at 20. He had been in Ordu, Kobani, and Şırnak as a special operations police officer. He was really successful in his profession and always said, “Every inch of Turkey is my hometown.” He reached martyrdom in Ankara which was his last workplace.
Seyit was buried in his hometown of Gaziantep. The name
Martyr Seyit Ahmet Çakır was given to an Anatolian imam hatip high school in Nizip, Gaziantep.
