Ayşe Aykaç

The heroic stories of women who preferred to go out to the streets instead of sitting in their homes on July 15 to repel the coup attempt of members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization reminded Nene Hatun. Ayşe Aykaç, 44, from Kastamonu, one of those fearless women, was martyred on the Bosporus Bridge, where she went with her husband to stand up against the coup attempt.

Ayşe Aykaç, who cried when she saw the families of the martyrs and said to her husband, " I wish God would grant us to be martyrs, I feel very sorry for their families not for the martyrs," was martyred while stopping against the coup plotters on the Bosporus Bridge.

Tank shot her in the chest

As soon as she learned about the coup attempt on the night of July 15, Ayşe Aykaç, who was prepared to go out with her husband Mustafa Aykaç, immediately performed ablution and prayers. Upon the call of President Erdoğan, she quickly went out on the street. Aykaç went to the Bosporus Bridge with her husband Mustafa Aykaç. The Aykaç couple at the forefront was raked by direct fire by the traitors in the tanks.

While Mustafa Aykaç was not injured by the fire opened, the bullet targeting Ayşe Aykaç entered through her arm and got stuck in her chest. Aykaç, who started to recite the kalima shahadah at that moment, delivered to the hospital in ten minutes with the help of those on the scene, but despite interfering for one hour, she died.

“She delivered her soul in my arms”

Mustafa Aykaç, the husband of Ayşe Aykaç, who is the mother of 4 children, expressed they feel sorry for being alone, not for the martyrdom of his wife, and said, “My children are supporting me where I will support them.”

“She delivered her soul in my arms where she was hit on the bridge. Allah Almighty granted her such a beautiful martyrdom that even the hodjas could not pronounce the kalima shahadah well in their last breath,” said Mustafa Aykaç, husband of martyr Ayşe Aykaç. He stated that Mrs. Ayşe did not go out on the streets in social events, she was afraid and shy, but she couldn’t remain unresponsive to the call of the President.

The name of martyr Ayşe Aykaç was given to an Anatolian religious vocational high school in Istanbul Üsküdar.