Voices from the Front

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 I Came Back Without Having Seen the Enemy
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   Chapter 2 A Twenty-Year-Old Youngster is Going …
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   Chapter 3 I Became a Soldier with a Beard
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   Chapter 4 If Soldiers had the Opportunity, They Would Run Away
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   Chapter 5 To Escape Military Service, You Need to Stay Away from Bread
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   Chapter 6 The Donkey Was Looking at Me … Should I Shoot Him Right Here? I Asked Myself …
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   Chapter 7 It Is Up to the Poor to Protect the Homeland; the Rich know How to Go About It …
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   Chapter 8 My Mother Asks, “Where is Muş?”
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    Chapter 9 I Slapped him Twice; He could not Understand Why He was Being Beaten …
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    Chapter 10 “I Have to Control My Nerves”
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    Chapter 11 Time Doesn’t Pass There; It Is as if Time Has Frozen …
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    Chapter 12 The Greatest Advantage of the State Is to Send the Twenty-Year-Old Youth to the Region
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    Chapter 13 Another Reward for Being a Veteran Is that Nobody Lets You Marry Their Daughter
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    Chapter 14 At Least I Sort of Saved Myself
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    Chapter 15 On the One Hand, There Is Great Respect and Love, but on the Other, There Is Brutality
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    Chapter 16 1313: The Number Inscribed on my Arm
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    Chapter 17 I Love All Human Beings; Even the Terrorists We Captured
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    Chapter 18 We Took Out the Powder from Our Bullets and Inscribed Our Remaining Days
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    Chapter 19 I, Too, Lived that Festive Day
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    Chapter 20 You Can’t Finish Your Military Service by Running Away from It; You Have to Go Through It
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    Chapter 21 Turkey’s Balances Are Disturbed
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    Chapter 22 If I Knew an Alternative for Evading Military Service, I Would Advise the Youth to Take It
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    Chapter 23 I Definitely Wouldn’t Send My Child into Military Service
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    Chapter 24 I Ordered the Soldier to Kill the Dog; There Was No Other Way
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    Chapter 25 What Would a Woman’s Voice Do There? You Hear It because You Are Lonely …
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    Chapter 26 I Became a Terrorist, Like They Said, a Real Terrorist …
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    Chapter 27 Our Nickname Among the Terrorists Was “Battalion of Bastards”
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    Chapter 28 I Didn’t Live up to the Uniform I Wore
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    Chapter 29 They Call It the “Invisible Enemy”: My Only Fear Was the Landmine and I Stepped on One …
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    Chapter 30 I Was Frightened. Instantly, I Thought of Death, of Dying …
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    Chapter 31 We Kept Asking, “Why Us?” But then We Realized that There Was No Way Out …
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    Chapter 32 Real Military Service Starts Here
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    Chapter 33 We Should Be the Ones Who Sanctify Life, not Death!
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    Chapter 34 Soldiers are the Ones Experiencing This Pain, I Mean the Conscripted Privates …
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    Chapter 35 Mother, I Survived Another Day
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    Chapter 36 These Were Moments When We Missed Death
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    Chapter 37 Am I an Idiot? Are the People Who Go There Idiots?
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    Chapter 38 While Everybody Is Sunbathing and Enjoying Themselves, We Go into an Operation!
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    Chapter 39 They Called Me “The Old Soldier”
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    Chapter 40 No Blood-for-Blood
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    Chapter 41 I Don’t Even Own a Piece of Land as Big as This Ashtray; Which Land Am I Going to Defend?
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    Chapter 42 In Place of the Ones Who Cannot Talk
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    Chapter 43 Numbers …