Today marks the 27th anniversary of the martyrdom of Molla Gıyaseddin Barlak
Molla Gıyaseddin Barlak, who was one of the prominent scholars of Hizbullah Jemaah in Turkey, was martyred by a deep state’s hitman in the Tatvan district of Van province on February 24, 1994.
Molla Gıyaseddin, was born in the Yünkuşak village of Özalp district of Van, where his father was an honorary imam in 1966, settled in his home town Gercüş district of Batman province in 1974.
Molla Gıyaseddin started his education life here, went to the mosque to get the education of the Qur'an. In childhood, his commitment to community and mosque, his success, and his manner in the school were always appreciated by his teachers and friends.
Molla Gıyaseddin completed the primary, secondary, and high school in Gercüş. After high school, he started madrasah for Islamic education in Siirt, Gercüş, Silvan, Ergani, Cizre, and Sason. Molla Gıyaseddin, who received madrasa education, on the one hand, finished Mardin İmam Hatip High School on the other hand through distance education.
He became an official imam in 1990. Molla Gıyaseddin, was intelligent, well-behaved, and successful, was loved by the environment and his friends. His loyalty to the Islamic dawah, his harmony with his friends, his good-humored, his fondness for the youth reading the Qur'an, his commitment to the mosque and the congregation was making his friends envious.
Molla Gıyaseddin, who was also a tradesman for a while, did not hesitate to sacrifice for the dawah by making an effort to educate young people with Islamic morality. After passing the imam test, he waited for three years, and then in 1993, he started to work as a muezzin in the Tatvan district of Bitlis. Molla Gıyaseddin tried to direct the young people to the community, started to give many Islamic lessons, especially the Qur'anic lecture, by bringing together friends in a short time.
Islamic studies, good moral values , and the importance he gave to children in Tatvan were soon learned by everyone. This work of Molla Gıyaseddin, which looked at with envy by local people, disturbed the devilish focal. The devilish forces, who felt raw about his studies, began to threaten the families of the children who joined the Qur'an course. Devilish state deep forces tried to demotivate Molla Gıyaseddin at his work with threats, saturation, and intimidation but couldn’t. Then they decide to kill Molla Gıyaseddin as the last resort.
Dark hands decide to display another scene of the persecution and massacres in Tatvan that they have carried out in Kurdistan geography. For this, Molla Gıyaseddin was chosen as the target. They wanted to launch a new conflict process in Tatvan by offloading the murder blame on PKK, which PKK was already slaughtered many Muslims in Kurdistan. The deep forces who have committed these treacherous schemes, demand Murat Kurtboğan, a confessor prisoner from Bitlis Prison, and another confessor named Nurettin to kill Molla Gıyaseddin.
When history shows that on February 24, 1994, after Molla Gıyaseddin had performed the tarawih prayer at the mosque, he took to way home without being aware of the treacherous ambush. The hitmen of Turkey's deep state implemented their treacherous plan. The traitors take advantage of the darkness in the evening and cross-fired on Molla Gıyaseddin. Molla Gıyaseddin, who disrupts the silence of the darkness with the Takbir voice, passed away at the scene. (ILKHA)