Victims of the massacre in Afyon were sent off to their final journey: His wife shed tears at his coffin

Hayrunissa Demir, the mother of Science Teacher Ayşe Sena Demir, who was killed by Arif Sefa Özdemir in Afyonkarahisar's İhsaniye district, and who lives in Antalya, said that she learned about the incident from television. Hayrunissa Demir said, "There was a subtitle on TV about the incident in İhsaniye. The phone rang. The Principal called. I thought it was an extraordinary situation regarding the Principal's call. I asked, 'Principal, is there something going on?' He said, 'No, teacher Sena was involved in a minor accident.' I said, 'I saw it on television. It was a murder case. That shouldn't be the case.' The Principal said, 'No, it has nothing to do with that.' But of course, I felt hot inside. I believed it first, then I changed the color of the situation." "I understand," he said.

'HE WENT TO SCHOOL WITH ENJOYMENT'

Hayrunnisa Demir said, "He was a teacher who went to school very enthusiastically, loved village schools, tried to enlighten the horizons of village children, constantly experimented on them and prepared for the lesson. He was very idealistic. When there was an emergency, when I called my child, he would never answer the phone. He would say, 'Mom, do not call during the lesson, no matter what.' Even though he was such an idealist and a teacher for years, he would go to the lesson prepared. He was a teacher for 15 years."

'HE WAS VERY HAPPY AT THE VILLAGE SCHOOL'

Demir said, "He graduated from Hacettepe as the top student of the semester. He was very happy in the village school. He said, 'I teach them how to sit, stand up, have good morals, and environmentalism, mom.' He wanted to be a pharmacy, but he thought it was a better profession than pharmacy. Because he thought he was doing something more useful. He was very idealistic in every sense, he was a truly exemplary teacher in terms of behavior, sitting, standing, honesty, justice. During the pandemic period, when he had paid for 3-4 courses that he could not attend during the trip, he called me and said, "He was a teacher who said, 'Mommy, you take this and give it to the needy, I don't take illicit money,'" he said.