Death of Eren Bülbül

Eren Bülbül (1 January 2002 - 11 August 2017) was a Turkish 15-year-old boy from Maçka, Trabzon who was killed by the PKK in part of a Turkish military patrol during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.

Eren Bülbül
Born(2002-01-01)1 January 2002
Maçka, Trabzon, Turkey
Died11 August 2017(2017-08-11) (aged 15)
Maçka, Trabzon, Turkey
Cause of deathGunshot wound
Resting placeMaçka, Trabzon[1]

Life

The son of Ayşe and Hasan Bülbül, Bülbül was one of 12 children. He spent his entire life in Maçka, Trabzon, as he went to local Çatak Primary School and later Maçka Anatolian Religious High School. He lost his father in 2016. He worked in his family's garden and liked sports, an ambitious fan of Trabzonspor.[2]

Death

On August 11, 2017, a group of PKK militants entered a house to obtain supplies after clashes with police. Bülbül saw them and informed the gendarmerie. He accompanied the police, showing them the house which the militants had entered. As a result of an attack by the PKK, both Bülbül and Gendarmerie Sergeant Major Ferhat Gedik were killed.[3][4] 41 bullets were taken out from Senior Master Sergeant Ferhat Gedik's body after he died as a martyr to save Eren.[5]

Later, Eren's mother Ayşe Bülbül said that his death had become the sorrow of the whole country.[6]

Legacy
Martyr Eren Bülbül railbus station, Sivas, Turkey

On 25 June 2019, Turkish Airlines launched a survey on Twitter to name the new Boeing 787 aircraft.[7] Among the options suggested in the survey were ancient city names such as Perga, Assos, Göbekli Tepe, and Zeugma, but Eren Bülbül's name was not included in the list. When many Twitter users initiated a campaign to put the name Eren Bülbül on the plane, Turkish Airlines responded by naming the plane after Bülbül's hometown Maçka.[8]

References
  1. "Trabzon'da şehit olan Eren Bülbül toprağa verildi". Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  2. "Eren Bülbül ölümü nasıl oldu, kaç yaşındaydı? Eren Bülbül kimdir, nerelidir?".
  3. "Trabzon'da şehit düşen Eren Bülbül yürekleri dağladı. Eren Bülbül kimdir?". Mynet (in Turkish). 14 August 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  4. "Eren Bülbül ölümünün 3. yılında anılıyor!".
  5. "Eren Bülbül'ün üzerine kapanan Astsubay'ın vücudundan 41 kurşun çıkmış, şehit Eren'in bu paylaşımı Türkiye'yi ağlatmıştı Kaynak Yeniçağ: Eren Bülbül'ün üzerine kapanan Astsubay'ın vücudundan 41 kurşun çıkmış, şehit Eren'in bu paylaşımı Türkiye'yi ağlatmıştı".
  6. "Şehit Eren Bülbül'ün annesi: Şehit yavrum tüm Türkiye'nin acısı oldu". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). 10 August 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  7. "THY 'Rüya uçak' için isim anketi başlattı". TRT Haber. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  8. "THY Maçka açıklaması". Turkish Airlines official Twitter page. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
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