Voices of Turkey's Purged
"I sent my son to serve the country and now he’s in jail."
Turkish soldiers search for missing military personnel suspected of being involved in the coup attempt. Kenan Gurbuz / Reuters
Diego Cupolo 11:28 AM ET Global
The night of July 15, Seda was at home in Erzurum, a town in eastern Turkey, when she got a call from her son, a student at a military academy in Ankara, the nation’s capital. Turkey was under attack, and he was being deployed with his classmates. His unit had been given rifles but no ammunition, he told Seda from the back of an army truck bound for the city center. Then he hung up.
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