Özgür - The Free Beloved Hero

Abdullah Ağar

Serving in commando bridages and special forces for many years,entering countless skirmishes and got shot in the belly with threebullets in the Iraqi mountains, Abdullah Ağar went back to this regionyears later. For 4 years, 1 day and 7 hours, he lived in these lands thatwere scorched with the fire of terrorism. When he returned back toTurkey, he wrote a very comprehensive book about ISIS titled: IŞİD veIrak.

He then went to Southeast Turkey, where he had served for so manyyears. He interviewed the soldiers fighting in the most adverseconditions. Then he went to the Euphrates Shield region... Er-Rai,El-Bab, Dabık... Özgür: The Free Beloved Hero is the result of thiswork. The title is based on the name of Captain Özgür Çevik who waskilled in action shortly after his interview with the author but it alsosymbolizes all the heroes that sacrifice their lives for the freedom of thecountry.

This book is the story of the greatest challenge that Turkey had to facesince the foundation of the Republic and “the spirit of assault” thatthe nation clinged on to after September 15th. coup attempt in orderto fight terrorists urban areas, mountains and the Euphrates Shieldcampaign.