Ali Derebasi, who was the principal of the Kocasinan Barbaros Kindergarten in Kayseri, was dismissed from his job on the grounds that his wife was a teacher in a Hizmet affiliated school. Later, he allegedly ended his life with the rope he tied to the ceiling at the school where he worked.
Ali Derebasi was the father of three children. His wife, Fatma Derebasi, stated after her husband did not have a psychological disorder as claimed in some media. Mrs Derebasi said, “He was very upset about my situation, and he was so devastated that some of his colleagues at his school were avoiding even greeting him and staying away from him. He kept saying before his death: ‘They consider us as traitors. We are not traitors!’ “.