Edip Akbayram's words 'my country is a paradise' become a trending topic again

Artist Edip Akbayram had been taken into intensive care due to internal bleeding at Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital, where he was taken following a bout of pneumonia.

PASSED AWAY

The artist Edip Akbayram, who had been receiving treatment since January 4, passed away today at 19:30 due to multiple organ failure.

HIS WORDS BECAME A TRENDING TOPIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA

While Akbayram's death plunged the entire country into mourning, the words he uttered in a program he attended became a trending topic on social media.

The words Akbayram uttered in the program in question are as follows:

"My country is a paradise. We are in a paradise of a country. Go to Paris today, walk down the street, trip and fall, and no one will pick you up. Only an ambulance will come and pick you up. Go to the most primitive village in the East, knock on a door, and say 'I am hungry.' Their only wealth is their animal, and they will slaughter it and feed it to you as a guest of God. There is no such noble country, no such noble people in the world. I have experienced this. This paradise homeland does not exist anywhere else in the world."