Family, colleagues and students bid farewell Saturday to a 22-year-old music teacher killed by PKK terrorists in southeastern Turkey's Batman province.

Şenay Aybüke Yalçın was traveling in a car with her colleagues in the southeastern Batman province when PKK terrorists launched an attack on Friday. The car she was in was hit by stray bullets as terrorists shot with assault rifles, targeting a nearby car belonging to a local mayor in the Kozluk district of the province.

The terrorists' target was another vehicle carrying lawyer Muhammet Işık, the nephew of Mayor Veysi Işık.

Işık was not wounded in the attack, but teacher Şenay Aybüke Yalçın was killed by the gunfire, and another teacher in the same car was wounded.Yalçın had graduated from Nevşehir University's Faculty of Fine Arts last year. Social media users shared images of the young teacher's Facebook post, celebrating her appointment in October to a public school in Batman, her first post.

Many praised the celebratory post of Yalçın over her apparent joy for working in a region which has long been synonymous with terror attacks.

A video for Yalçın's Facebook page, showing her singing the Turkish folk song "Mağusa Limanı" (Famagusta Port), also went viral in social media circles. A funeral ceremony was held at the Kozluk teachers' lodge on Saturday with the attendance of Yalçın's family, province and district officials, students and colleagues.

Yalçın's body will first be transferred to Ankara for an official ceremony, and then to her hometown Osmancık in central Çorum province for burial.

Mahmut Işık, the manager of Kozluk Multi-Program High School where Yalçın was working, told reporters that the music classroom of the high school will be named after the young teacher, who was buying music instruments for the classroom with her own salary.

Işık said that the locals and the parents in Kozluk support the idea to rename the high school after Yalçın, and said they will apply to province and district officials.

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