Musa Ateş, father of Sinan Ateş, has passed away

Musa Ateş, the father of the former President of the Ülkü Ocakları Education and Culture Foundation Sinan Ateş—who was killed in an armed attack by two people on a motorcycle while leaving a building with his friend Selman Bozkurt in Ankara on December 30, 2022—has passed away.

Ateş passed away without seeing his son's murder case fully resolved, and no statement has yet been made regarding the cause of his death.

Since December 2022, Ateş had been fighting for the clarification of his son's murder.

THE SINAN ATEŞ MURDER

On December 30, 2022, former Ülkü Ocakları President and academic Sinan Ateş was subjected to an armed attack by Eray Özyağcı, who had been hiding behind a vehicle on 1456th Street in the Kızılırmak neighborhood of Çankaya, while he was with his relative Selman Bozkurt.

One bullet fired by Özyağcı hit Bozkurt, and five bullets hit Ateş. Bozkurt was wounded in the shoulder. Ateş was critically injured and died at the hospital where he was taken.

According to the autopsy report, of the five bullets that hit Ateş: one entered through his chin and exited through the top of his head, one entered through his left abdomen and exited through his lower back, and one entered through the groin area of his left leg; while an exit point was found for that bullet, no exit point was found for another bullet that entered through the same area, nor for a bullet that entered through his right groin.

The attack was referred to in the press as the "Sinan Ateş murder," the "Sinan Ateş assassination," or the "Çukurambar murder," and Ateş was declared a martyr by some individuals. Ateş is the second Ülkü Ocakları president to be shot and the first to die as a result of being shot.