Mohammed Zaatari/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.On the historic night of 15 July, as I sat hundreds of miles away from Istanbul, my heart almost skipped a beat when my Dad shouted, “Tanks are blocking the bridge. There is a coup attempt”.
I turned on the TV to see what was happening, everyone was perplexed and holding their breath. But as I watched, I could see beyond the headlines. I saw the streets and squares I crossed, the shops I enter regularly as well as very familiar faces.
As an Egyptian student in Istanbul for two years, Turkey has been a very special place; its welfare is a concern for me, and to be fair, to almost every international student and expat I met.
