Two Canadian PhD students caught in Turkey coup chaos

Two Toronto students were at a restaurant in Istanbul when Turkey’s military coup began Friday evening.
Paul Bocking, 32, and his fiancé Pelin Asci, 29, both geography PhD students at York University who are set to marry this summer, are in Istanbul, Turkey visiting Asci’s family.
As a loud explosion rattled the capital, Ankara, fighter jets buzzed low overhead and gunfire erupted near military headquarters, Bocking and his fiancé learned of the chaos from those around them. More...