The allegations that alcohol was consumed in the Dolmabahçe Bezmiâlem Valide Sultan Mosque during the Gezi Park protests in 2013 caused great controversy.
Fuat Yıldırım, who was the mouezzin of the mosque at that time, said that he had never witnessed drinking in the mosque.
A pleasing news came from Yıldırım, who is receiving dialysis treatment three days a week due to chronic kidney disease and waiting for an organ transplant.
According to the information obtained, a kidney transplant was performed by Mehmet Haberal at Başkent University to Fuat Yıldırım.
It was learned that Fuat Yıldırım's health and morale were good. While the allegations of drinking alcohol in the mosque during the Gezi Park events caused a great debate in the country's agenda, the mosque mouezzin Fuat Yıldırım said that he had not seen alcohol being drunk in the mosque.
Fuat Yıldırım also gave a statement to the police because of what happened in the Bezmialem Mosque and said, "I am a religious man, I cannot lie, I have not seen any one drinking."