AK Party Düzce Deputy Ayşe Keşir, regarding what happened in the Turkish Grand National Assembly during the July 15, 2016 FETO Coup Attempt, said, "Our memory of blood, which also recurred in the War of Independence, was revived that night."
AK Party Düzce Deputy Ayşe Keşir, who was one of the first MPs to come to the Parliament on the night of July 15, 2016, when FETO attempted a coup, and made the first live broadcast by connecting to televisions from the General Assembly hall, told İhlas News Agency about what she experienced that night. Stating that they decided to go to the Parliament as soon as they learned about the coup attempt, Keşir said, "Around 22.00-22.30 on the night of July 15, we started to understand that the situation was something different. Before that, we tried to understand what happened from the moment we learned that the bridge was closed. We called and texted with our friends. If everyone had information, we shared it. Since the Parliament was closed the day before, I had planned to go to my city the next day. I was in Ankara that day. Some of our friends even spent the night of July 15 in their city. geçirdi. Biz bir grup arkadaş Ankara'daydık. Daha sonra 22.30-23.00'e doğru anlaşılınca aracımı çağırdım. Evde bir küçük kızım vardı. Ablası dışarıdaydı bir etkinlik için. Onu eve çağırdım. Küçük kızım 'Gitmesen olmaz mı' dedi. Haklı olarak çocuk korktu. 12 yaşında o zaman. Kızıma, 'Ben 17 yaşından beri sokaktayım. Bu gece gitmezsem senin annen olmam' dediğimi hatırlıyorum. Tam giyindim, çıkıyorum. "On his way out, the coup declaration was broadcast on television. It is now understood that the coup has been finalized," he said.
"I am one of the first 6-7 MPs to go to Parliament"
Stating that the female MPs were the first to come to the Parliament that night, Keşir said, "I was one of the first 6-7 MPs to go to the Parliament. We gathered in the room of our head of administration, Ahmet Gündoğdu. In the meantime, he contacted our Parliament Speaker. He was also in the Parliament. There was talk that the General Assembly should be opened. But the General Assembly doors are locked. Those who know those places know. Very big, huge, heavy doors. They are not doors that you can open unless you find the key. It took a while. The General Assembly opened around 01.00-01.30. When the General Assembly opened, our President wanted to explain our feelings and will to the citizens. I called a friend of mine to connect to a television channel. I was given my phone number and I was called back.
"When we felt the bomb being dropped, none of the MPs had the reflex to take cover or hide.
Stating that the first telephone connection lasted 10-12 minutes, Keşir said, "We shared the speech of our President, when he first opened the Parliament, to the public on the national channel we connected to via my phone. Our aim here was to show the public that the trustees of the nation, the representatives of the nation, were protecting the trust, while our President was calling the nation to the streets. Connecting to the live broadcast was a reflex of fulfilling our responsibility towards our nation as a communicative parliamentarian who came from journalism. Then we turned off the broadcast. The Assembly." The first bomb was thrown at the Garden, and then the second bomb was thrown at the place where we are now, about 15 meters away from the General Assembly. I say that in order to protect the rights of all my fellow MPs who were there that day, none of the MPs had the reflex to take cover or hide. On the contrary, we shouted louder slogans and tried to express resistance there. The relevant channel called again and we had the opportunity to convey that environment to the public for 8-10 minutes. he said.
"Our memory of the blood that recurred in the War of Independence was revived that night."
Underlining that there were deputies from different political parties and former deputies in the Parliament that night, Keşir said, "We have been in this geography for approximately 2000 years. Our memory of the blood that recurred in the War of Independence was revived that night. After that night, I do not say 'Generation Z, oh these young people' or anything like that. Because we have very young martyrs, we have martyrs who are high school students. What can we say to this youth when we listen to their stories? That night, in fact, I questioned life in a personal sense, I was against life." "It was a night that changed my stance. This nation may think differently. We even saw people with different social and economic structures and different social lives fighting side by side in Kızılay Square. We tried to fulfill our mission that night. The nation may think differently, have different political views, have different social lives, but when the survival of the nation and its own will is at stake, that blood memory comes alive." - ANKARA