08.01.2026 13:59
Mehmetcan Aytekin, who completed his military service in Hatay and returned to Eskişehir, surprised his mother by saluting at the place where he sold simit in his military uniform. This moment moved his mother and was applauded by the surrounding citizens.
After completing his military service, the young man who returned to Eskişehir and saluted his mother selling simit on the street by saying, "I have fulfilled my patriotic duty, my dear mother," moved her emotionally. Mehmetcan Aytekin, who completed his military service in Hatay, returned to his hometown Eskişehir.
LOCAL CITIZENS APPLAUDED THE YOUNG SOLDIER
Not informing his mother upon his return, Aytekin approached his mother, a vendor selling simit on Köprübaşı Street in the Arifiye neighborhood, in his military uniform and saluted her by saying, "Mehmetcan Aytekin Eskişehir. I have fulfilled my patriotic duty, my dear mother." The mother, seeing her son in front of her, hugged him emotionally. The local citizens also applauded the young man.