Mutlu Can Kılıç was only 17 years old when martyred. First child of the family, he was working as a waiter. On the night of the coup attempt, he went out with his father after midnight. He got up out of his sickbed and went out to fight for his country. After being shot by FETÖ’s traitors in front of the Presidential Palace, he became one of the youngest martyrs of the july 15th coup.
Originally from Ankara, he was continuing his education at a public school, and he had a 14 year old sister. Being the first child of his family, he went out with his father after midnight around 01:30-02:00. His father said that he saw his son after his isha prayer for the last time, he also stated that his son had the flu and yet he still got up from bed to stand up against the putschists.
He ran to the streets after his father
Bereaved father, Bilal Kılıç, spoke to Yeni Şafak about what happened during that night, “I finished my isha prayer, I was sitting on the balcony. Mutlu Can was watching TV, he came to me excited, ‘Father, someone planted a bomb on the bridge, troops are at the bridge!’ I curiously went to watch the news. And he had a bit of a cold so he went to his room to sleep. I went to the police headquarters and then to the palace upon President Erdoğan’s call to fight against coup plotters there. My son woke up to F-16 noises. He asked his mother about me and he learned that I was out. When he saw the news that the, ‘TBMM has been bombarded,’ he thought that I fell a martyr and went out immediately. His mother called me saying, ‘Mutlu CCan is on his way to you, stop him!’ He continuously cried on the way. I called him and said, ‘Don’t come, son, I am alright,’ yet, he wouldn’t listen. He came to the palace. He texted me ‘Call me, father’, around 05:30; I forgot to call him with the confusion that occurred from conflicts in that moment. I called him around 06:30, but couldn’t reach him. After bombs were dropped at the palace, I wanted to go there, yet my feet didn’t allow me to, so I went back home. My son wasn’t there. We looked for him everywhere, they showed me someone resembling my son, but I didn’t accept that it was him. I went there the following day, then I was convinced that my son had become a martyr. He fell a martyr during the bombs. Those traitors must be punished with what they deserve. My son was born 8 years after we had gotten married. He was our precious son. God loved him more than we did so he took him by his side.”
Wanting and always talking about becoming a martyr to his mother and friends, his prayers came true. Leaving behind a grieving mother, one of Mutlu Can’s dreams was to get a driver’s license and buy a car. Giving half of his earnings to his parents was the way he was supporting his father, who was working at the Chamber of Accounts as a sanitation worker.
Martyr Mutlu Can Kılıç was buried in Ankara on Tuesday, July 19th.
