President Erdoğan gifts cellphone to injured soldier
by Compiled from Wire Services
ISTANBULMay 03, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Compiled from Wire Services
May 03, 2016 12:00 am
Mustafa Bozok made the headlines last month, after a cellphone in his pocket deflected a bullet fired by terrorists and saved him from loss of a limb or death. Bozok, a sergeant, discovered his cellphone was destroyed after a bullet hit his leg.
Another bullet hit him on the other leg, although the second left only a light injury. Bozok is currently hospitalized within a military hospital in Diyarbakır, located near Nusaybin, the southeastern town where his team fought against PKK terrorists when he was injured. After Bozok's story and the photo of his broken cellphone was widely shared on social media, the young gendarmerie officer received a surprise visitor on Monday.
The deputy governor of Mardin, the province including Nusaybin district, visited Bozok in his hospital room and extended President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's get-well-soon wishes. Inside a gift package was a brand new cellphone, the same model as the phone that saved Bozok's life. Bozok conveyed his thanks to the president, although he dismissed his injury as part of his "duty for the country."
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