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couraged them to die—to become martyrs for Turkey.11 The reason for this
call was to take action against an apparently deadly coup attempt, which
marked a turning point in Turkey’s history, yet added another layer of
complexity to the conundrum that is Turkish politics. The attempted coup
was organized by a fraction in the Turkish military, through several opera-
tions in various Turkish cities, to topple the government led by R. Tayyip
Erdoğan. Most national newspapers, as by 22:37 o’clock, announced that
the coup was prevented because the public stood against it.
A few days after the attempted coup, Erdoğan called the struggle against
the coup a “war” and declared the casualties as “martyrs,” regardless of
their ethnic origin or gender:
“Kahraman şehitlerimize Allah’tan rahmet diliyorum. 15 Temmuz dar-
be girişiminde 62’si polis 179’u sivil, 5’i asker olmak üzere 246 şehidi-
miz var. Rabbim onları şefkatiyle, merhametiyle kuşatsın, Peygamber
Efendimize komşu eylesin. Yaralılarımızın sayısı 2186, yaralılarımıza
Allah’tan acil şifalar temenni ediyorum.
Şehitlerimiz ve gazilerimiz, 15 Temmuz gecesi cesaretleriyle, dirayetle-
riyle, kararlı ve dik duruşlarıyla tarih yazdılar. Hiç şüphesiz şehitlerimiz
kalplerimizdeki mümtaz yerlerini daima muhafaza edeceklerdir. Bunun-
la birlikte artık her yıl 15 Temmuz Şehitlerimizi Anma Günü’nde kendile-
rini hassaten yâd edecek, hatıralarını gelecek nesillere aktaracağız.
Değerli kardeşlerim;
Bugün 81 ilimizdeki, ilçelerimizdeki meydanlarda ve tüm Türkiye’de
coşkuyla, gururla söylenen özgürlük türkülerinin asıl bestekârı milleti-
mizin bizatihi ta kendisidir. 15 Temmuz gecesi sokaklarda Sünni-Ale-
vi yoktu, Türk-Kürt yoktu, Çerkez-Roman yoktu, o gece meydanlarda
sağcı-solcu, zengin-fakir, iktidar-muhalefet yoktu. 15 Temmuz’da tıpkı
Çanakkale’de, İstiklal Harbimizde olduğu gibi tüm fertleriyle tek yürek,
tek bilek olmuş, iradesini bir avuç darbeciye çiğnetmeyen büyük Türkiye
vardı, Türk milleti vardı.”12
[“I wish God show mercy to our martyrs. In the coup attempt on 15 July,
we have 246 martyrs, 62 of whom are civilians and 179 are civil serv-
ants. May the Lord keep them there [in Heaven] with His compassion
and mercy and grant them to be neighbors with Prophet Mohammed.
The number of our wounded is 2186, as I wish that God grants a speedy
recovery for them.
On the night of 15 July, our martyrs and veterans wrote history with their
courage, dignity and determination, and upright postures. Undoubtedly,
our martyrs will always keep their special places in our hearts. However,
11 CNN news report on Erdogan
using FaceTime can be found
here: https://edition.cnn.com/
2016/07/18/ opinions/ erdogan-
face-time-social-media-ed-finn/
index.html [accessed 2 November
2018.]
12 The speech was obtained from
the Turkish president’s official
website: https://www.tccb.gov.
tr/ konusmalar/353/49742/15-
temmuz-darbe-girisimi-ile-ilgili-
meydanlara-yaptiklari-konusma
[accessed on 28 October 2018].
Limina
Grazer theologische Perspektiven, Band 2:1
- Titel
- Limina
- Untertitel
- Grazer theologische Perspektiven
- Band
- 2:1
- Herausgeber
- Karl Franzens University Graz
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- deutsch
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- CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 21.4 x 30.1 cm
- Seiten
- 194
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