The Death of Kenan Evren on Social Media: #KötüBilirdik*
7th President and Chief of Military Staff of 1980 Military Coup, Kenan Evren died on May 9, 2015. Twitter users tweeted hundreds of tweets over coup d’etat.
17-year-old Turkish student Erdal Eren who was hanged as a terrorist by the military regime on Dec. 13, in 1980, and Berfo Kırbayır who lost his son in the period of military coup and couldn’t find him and died in 2013 were commemorated and twitter users shared their feelings over Kenan Evren, died at the age of 98, with hashtag #KötüBilirdik.
Some of these tweets are:
@pelinsrky:
My mother knows Thursday
Knows to be tortured as well
My mother travels around on Friday
All hidden corners
My mother is a Saturday mother.
#kötüBilirdik #HelalEtmiyoruz
@yaseminarayan:
Evren: "We hanged one from the left and one from the right,"
It was so ordinary for him as if he hung his laundry to dry.
#kötübilirdik
@FeradAmed: I never forget, never forget, you never forget, how can a person resist otherwise? … Never forget… Turgut Uyar #KötüBilirdik
@ArzuCerkezoglu: # A dictator died today. Where are his ideas now?
@OzgurUrfa: #KötüBilirdik He who has the inheritance of “General” should be asked the price.
@kolektifler: Kenan Evren died at the age of 97 but Erdal Eren will be 17 forever. #KötüBilirdik
@sicevis: #KötüBilirdik I wish Evren goes to hell after facing Erdal Eren and Mother Berfo.
@EzilenlerinHB: #KötüBilirdik Our parents faced the torturing in those life and death struggles. We couldn’t even go outside when we were children.
@AJANSAMED: #KötüBilirdik Sakine Arat lost his son while he was on hunger strike. Who else did she lost?
@DuyguGoktas: 650,000 people were under arrest. 1,683,000 people were blacklisted. 50 people were hanged. 171 people died while being tortured. 299 people died in prison. A killer of a nation! #Kötübilirdik #KenanEvren
@trajiklambasi: Kenan Evren was inhuman. #KötüBilirdik
State ceremony
On June 18, 2014 Kenan Evren was sentenced to life imprisonment with the charge of “crimes against the state” with the verdict of Ankara 10th High Penal Court. His case is still in Supreme Court and there isn’t any legal obstacle to the state ceremony.
According to the news of daily newspapers, government authorities will visit Evren’s family for burial procedures. Evren will be buried in the state cemetery unless indicated otherwise by his family. National funeral which will be held in Ankara, will be participated by Presidential Guard Regiment Funeral Battalion and Military Band and the coffin will be carried on gun carriage. (AS/BD)
*Kötü bilirdik: In the religion of Islam, when a person dies, the imam asks the people who attend the funeral “How did you know the deceased?” People always say “We knew him/her as a nice person,” customarily. However, Kenan Evren was remembered not very well in social media with hashtag #KötüBilirdik (# we knew him as a bad person).
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