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Stripped, dismissed, jailed and exiled: Turkish soldier tells his story of 'the coup night'
Four years ago, a military coup was attempted in Turkey. It failed, and the fallout led to tens of thousands of soldiers, police, and civil servants being dismissed or suspended from their jobs, and thousands jailed. A photo published in a Turkish newspaper shows rows of men partially stripped, hands bound behind their backs, kneeling in a horse stable after they were detained by police. Among them was Lt. Muhammed Emin Gundogdu, who had been attending a training course in the capital Ankara on the night of the coup. Now in Germany, he has shared his story for the first time in an exclusive interview with Euronews.
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