Police officers Resul Barutçu and Özgür Barçın, who were martyred as a result of the explosion of an explosive in Syria's Tel Abyad district in Operation Peace Spring, were sent off to their hometowns with a ceremony.
The bodies of martyred police officers Barutçu and Barçın were taken from the morgue of Şanlıurfa Forensic Medicine Institute and brought to GAP Airport.
In the ceremony here, the résumés of the martyrs were read, and the Provincial Mufti Ramazan Tolan prayed.
Şanlıurfa Governor Salih Ayhan, in his speech at the ceremony, wished God's mercy to the martyrs. Governor Ayhan said following words:
"We have lost our hero friends, our pain is great. However, it should be known that our strength, courage and determination are even greater. Today we will shed our tears, and we will never make the traitors happy. I want to address the PKK, its branches, its sympathizers and collaborators from here, you will never achieve your low goals, you will never win. We have never been disappointed and never will. We paid a heavy price for these lands, neither the first nor the last martyr of these lands. All kinds of extensions of the treacherous terrorist organization PKK/PYD, their supporters and collaborators, who are causing us this pain, know well that against your attacks targeting the unity and solidarity of our country, we will make you pay a heavy price for these attacks by drowning you in your own blood with the determined struggle of our heroic comrades."
Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül, Şanlıurfa Chief Public Prosecutor Cuma Çoban, Provincial Gendarmerie Commander Brigadier General Mücahit Avkıran, Provincial Police Chief Mehmet Murat Ulucan, representatives of some non-governmental organizations, soldiers and police officers attended the ceremony.
After the ceremony, the body of the martyr Barutçu was sent to Osmaniye, and the body of Barçın to Ankara by military plane.
Explosives exploded in Tel Abyad, in the Şanlıurfa/Akçakale responsibility area, during the intervention to the explosive materials to be used in the bombing attacks planned by the terrorist organization PKK/PYD. In the incident, 2 police officers and 1 local policeman were killed, 7 police officers and 4 local police officers were injured.