06.11.2026 11:24
In the attack in Afyonkarahisar that killed 8 people, teachers Hilal Mete and Ayşe Sena Demir, who worked at Yukarıtandır Secondary School, also lost their lives. After the incident, education was suspended at the school, while a grieving village resident said, "All the children in the village are crying for their teachers. The situation is very bad; we are very sad. Some unstable pervert has attempted this."
While education was suspended at the school where the teachers among the 8 people killed in the İhsaniye district of Afyonkarahisar worked, parents expressed their reactions by calling the perpetrator who carried out the incident 'unbalanced and perverted'.
The attacker Arif Sefa Özdemir opened fire with a shotgun at S.P., who was leaving his home in Orhangazi Neighborhood in the city center and trying to get into his vehicle yesterday evening. After severely wounding S.P., the person got into his vehicle and killed Ahmet Uzel (57), Bekir Toprak (50), Noman Toprak (56), Seydi Ahmet Aydoğmuş (73), Satı Aydoğmuş (68), İsmail Şen (61), Hilal Mete (31) and Ayşe Sena Demir (46), who were traveling in their vehicles in the villages of Yukarıtandır, Ayazini and Kıyır in İhsaniye district, by shooting them with a shotgun.
It was reported that S.P., the attacker's first target, remains in serious condition and that treatment continues at the hospital where S.P. was taken.
EDUCATION SUSPENDED FOR 1 DAY AT SCHOOL The killing of Hilal Mete and Ayşe Sena Demir, who worked as teachers at Yukarıtandır Secondary School, plunged the village into mourning. Following the incident, education at the school was temporarily suspended for one day, and students could not start classes.
Teacher Hilal Mete THE CHILDREN WERE UTTERLY DEVASTATED Abdullah Ardıç, one of the village residents who spoke about the incident, expressed that they are in mourning and said, 'An event we never expected happened. 3 of our teachers were attacked. Two were killed. We are in pain; schools were already closed today. We knew the teachers; my children were also their students at that school. Since we went to and from the school, we knew each other. The children were utterly devastated. All the children in the village are crying for their teachers. The situation is very bad; we are very sad. It cannot be described. Some unbalanced pervert attempted this.'
Arif Sefa Özdemir, who killed 8 people in Afyonkarahisar, was caught in Eskişehir. HE ATTEMPTED TO CARJACK THE TEACHERS' VEHICLE Another village resident and father of a student attending the school, Ümit Şahin, stated that they experienced great shock when they heard about the incident and said the following:
'Unfortunately, we heard about the painful incident that happened yesterday and immediately came to our village. Both of our teachers were very valuable people. Unfortunately, they lost their lives after the painful incident. Everyone knows that the murderer who did this, the cowardly one, is not from this village. Unfortunately, it is a very bad situation. There had never been such an incident related to our village before. When we heard our village's name in the news, we immediately rushed and came to the village. The incident already happened on our village road. According to what we learned, he tried to carjack the teachers' cars, and in the meantime, he slaughtered the teachers. The children did not go to school and they are very sad.'