"We Have Not Forgotten You, Tuğçe Sakarya!"

We miss you…

A full year has passed since our friend Tuğçe Sakarya passed away. As the Bahçeşehir Haber team, we have never forgotten Tuğçe, and we never will.

The first day of the new year is also the first anniversary of the passing of Tuğçe Sakarya, a student of the Bahçeşehir University Department of Journalism. Time flies, but we still have not come to terms with Tuğçe's death. We lost Tuğçe on the night 2007 turned into 2008. An unfortunate traffic accident on the way back from a celebration, and the painful news… The New Year's joy had ended badly. Our dear friend closed her eyes to life forever. That unfortunate night took Tuğçe away from us. We are still alive and standing, but a part of us is missing. We continue the marathon we started with 22 people without Tuğçe. Had she lived, she would have come one step closer to her ideals. We would have chased the news together; perhaps she would have grown more and more used to the idea of becoming a journalist day by day. But it was not to be. Life took her from us far too soon. Her cheerful manner, her warm, sincere smile and her seemingly endless determination are always on our minds. We continue to chase our dreams, but each of us adds a piece of Tuğçe to our dreams; in fact, we are trying to keep her alive. Reality is never as rosy as our dreams. As time passes, we feel Tuğçe's absence a little more and grow a little sadder. We miss Tuğçe, and we always will.

Bahçeşehir University and the Bahçeşehir Haber Team