Living through coups a normality for Turks

History repeats itself as Cagla Oztek finds herself repeating the same words to her children that her father spoke to her when the military tried to take over in Turkey over 30 years ago

Bad things always happen in the deep dark of night. I have known this since I was 12, when my father woke my sister and me from our bunk beds, gathered us in the living room and told us, in a slow and clear voice, that Turkey was in the throes of a military coup.

“If it’s a successful one, there will be blood everywhere,” he said. “If it’s not, there will be blood everywhere. No one will win.”