"We were getting messages to take to the streets"

Speaking to MEE, Zeynep Yildiz, a housewife in Istanbul's Fatih area said:

"I never experienced previous coups in Turkey but grew up listening about it from my family. And about how bad it was. As soon as I heard, I took to the streets. We were getting SMS messages to take to the streets against the coup. If we hadn't done so maybe things would be different today."