One of the youngest martyrs of the July 15th coup attempt, 17-year-old Özgür Mustafa Karasakal, was martyred from helicopter fire in front of the General Staff building. Waiting for an ambulance for 40 minutes after being shot, Karasakal was martyred in front of his father and two siblings.
Muhyiddin Şahbaz, the stepfather of Özgür, decided to go out to the squares after the call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Özgür went to Kızılay together with his two siblings, father, and cousin. They marched with the crowd towards the General Staff building with flags in their hands and chanted, ‘God is the greatest!’ Putschist traitors were running people over with their tanks. The tanks lowered their barrels and threw some of the people off the bridge, and ran over others. Karasakal and his family hid at the bottom of the General Staff's wall, but the helicopter opened fire and the bullets hit the 17-year-old. Karasakal was shot and collapsed next to his father’s feet. Ambulances could not get to him before he was martyred.
Özgür Mustafa Karasakal's funeral was at Gölbaşı Cemetery. Karasakal was going to turn 18 on September 11th if he hadn’t been martyred by FETÖ traitors.
