Coup bid 'martyrs' become new heroes of Erdogan's Turkey The 249 people who died at the hands of the coup plotters in Turkey are remembered as martyrs for Islam and are the subject of intense veneration on the first anniversary of the failed putsch. One general in particular is lionised -- Sergeant Omer Halisdemir, who shot a superior suspected of taking part in the coup before himself being killed. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES