The name of the police officer Fethi Sekin, who was martyred three years ago while trying to prevent the bomb attack against the Izmir Courthouse, will now be kept alive in the Gulf of Izmir. The fourth of the “Fethi Sekin” car ferry, which will serve under the General Directorate of İZDENİZ, joined the fleet with a ceremony at the Üçkuyular Ferry Port.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality added the new ferryboat named after the martyr Fethi Sekin to its fleet with a ceremony. Emotional moments were experienced in the ceremony attended by Rabia Sekin, the wife of Fethi Sekin, who was martyred while preventing the attack on the Izmir Courthouse, and her daughter Zeynep Dila Sekin. Speaking at the ceremony, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer"No matter what we do, we certainly cannot repay our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for us," he said.
The ceremony at Üçkuyular Ferry Pier was attended by Deputy Provincial Police Chief Ercan Yılmaz, Narlıdere Mayor Ali Engin, Metropolitan Mayor Tunç Soyer's wife Neptün Soyer, Metropolitan Municipality, Secretary General Dr. Buğra Gökçe, İZSU General Manager Aysel Özkan, İZDENİZ General Manager İlyas Murtezaoğlu, İZDENİZ executives, traffic police and guests attended. Due to the epidemic measures, the ceremony was held with a limited number of guests.
Speaking at the joining ceremony of the Fethi Sekin Arabalı Ferry to the İZDENİZ fleet, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tunç Soyer, said that they want to increase the share of the municipality in maritime transportation and to encourage the people of Izmir more to sea transportation. Soyer said, “We embroidered the old patterns of İzmir in police blue on the Fethi Sekin Ferry. We will see these patterns in other venues of special importance for İzmir in the coming months.” Noting that the ferry was designed considering the unhindered transportation of disabled citizens, the President also noted that Tunç Soyerannounced that there are embossed warning and direction signs in necessary places for visually impaired citizens.
“If we live peacefully, we owe it to the heroes”
President Tunç Soyer“We consider and plan qualified, technological, nature-friendly, comfortable and disabled-friendly public transportation as a whole. We continue our new investments, such as the Buca metro, İzmir's biggest investment to date; We aim to ensure that all our transportation elements such as land, bicycle, rail and sea transportation work in harmony with each other.”
Fethi Seki people of Ontario and Soyer, indicating that Turkey has a very important place in the hearts of all, "If we live peacefully in this city, we owe it to our hero, Fethi Seki" he said.
“We cannot pay the right of our martyrs”
To keep the name of Sekin alive BayraklıReminding that the park, built on 40 decares of land in , was named “Martyr Police Fethi Sekin Park”. Tunç SoyerHe noted that the names of the court officer Musa Can, who was martyred on the same day as Sekin, were given to the street and street that cut the İzmir Courthouse. President Soyer continued as follows: “No matter what we do, we certainly cannot repay our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for us. They defied death for our country, for the future of our children, without blinking their eyes. Our main duty is to protect what is left of them and to keep their memory alive.”
Ahmet Ötkür, General Manager of Çeliktrans Shipyard, which built the ferry, stated that they designed the ferry in accordance with the demands and specifications of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and said that the ferry was ready to serve the people of Izmir for many years.
After the speeches, President Soyer cut the opening ribbon with Martyr Fethi Sekin's wife Rabia Sekin, daughter Zeynep Dila Sekin and other guests. The guests then toured the ship. Minister Tunç SoyerHere he signed the ship's logbook. Again, the bell with Sekin's name on it was stolen by President Soyer, the wife and daughter of the martyr. The guests returned to the pier after a short tour of the Gulf by ferry.
Fethi Sekin Arabalı Ferry will be put into service on July 1st Cabotage Day.
Ferry properties
“Fethi Sekin” became the fourth ferry to be added to the İZDENİZ fleet. The ferry built in Istanbul Tuzla Shipyard is 73 thousand 98 meters tall and 15,21 meters wide. It can carry 51 vehicles, 12 bicycles and 10 motorcycles. It has a total capacity of 194 passengers, including 128 in the closed passenger hall and 322 in the open passenger hall. On the starboard and pier sides, there are two handicapped elevators that provide access between the car deck and the passenger deck, large windows offering views of the bay in the closed passenger lounge, TV broadcasts, wireless internet and plugs for telephone-computer charging, and two independent pet cages on the deck. Baby care room, two men, two women and a disabled toilet on the ship, embossed warning and guidance signs for visually impaired passengers, special parking spaces for disabled passengers, wheelchair parking spaces in the closed passenger hall and playground for children aged 2-5 also available.
Steamer with library
Just like Ahmet Piriştina Arabalı Ferry, Fethi Sekin Arabalı Ferry also has a library. In the library created by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Libraries Branch Directorate, passengers will be able to borrow two books in 21-day periods. Readers will be able to leave the books they bought from the ferry in the ferry or book box on the pier after 21 days. There are 500 books in the library at Fethi Sekin Arabalı Ferry.
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