Ilyas Unlu was working in a school closed by the Decree-Law and died in an explosion in the factory. 

Unlu was not allowed to work in any school after being released because, like everyone who was expelled by the Decree or was arrested with allegations of being a member of the Hizmet Movement, he was stigmatized as `Gulenist. A job cannot be given!’. Private business owners, who do not want to get into trouble with the regime, do not give jobs to those under the regime’s radar for fear of confiscating their workplaces in Erdogan’s Turkey. 

He started working in a factory because he became unemployed. Unlu was one of the two workers who died in the blast on January 27, 2018, at the fireworks factory in Bor, Nigde. Unlu was working in a private education institution closed by decree because it was claimed that the school was a Hizmet affiliated school. Unlu had to work in a job that he did not know because he had to earn a living for his family. The 33-year-old Unlu was married and had a child. His body was buried in his hometown, Islik Cemetery in Karapinar, Konya.