Experience: a coup interrupted our wedding

‘As the night wore on, we heard more gunfire. We turned off all the lights to avoid attracting attention’It began as the perfect wedding. Last year we hired a beautiful venue on the eastern bank of Istanbul’s Bosphorus strait, overlooking the water. We had conducted the legal marriage already, so this was the celebration. As guests sat down to their starters that July evening, we sang a jaunty traditional Turkish duet. Soon everyone was dancing and the party was in full sw