While announcing the news of Özcan's passing away, the Editor-in-Chief of Milli Gazete Mustafa Kurdaş, also shared a post about Mevlut hodja.
Kurdaş, who made a statement about the passing away of Mevlüt Özcan hodja on his social media account, shared the following statements:
"Our teacher Mevlüt Özcan, who wrote for many years in our Milli Gazete, published Friday sermons in our Milli Gazete, was the imam of Friday prayer in our Milli Gazete. We are witnesses; He spent his life telling about Islam. May Allah have mercy on him, may his place be heaven. Amin."