'I wanted my heart, my brain, and all my organs all to be crushed at once': Turk who lay down in front of a tank in iconic image of the failed coup tells of the moment he braced himself to die

Metin Dogan (left), 40, didn't think twice before he put himself in front of a tank (right) and between armed soldiers attempting to take over the country in Istanbul on Friday and told them to 'go over me or go away'. 


'When I lay down, I aligned my whole body, because I wanted my heart, my brain, and all my organs all to be crushed at once. I'm waiting to see how that one second is going to feel. I didn't want to miss that one second, If I miss that one second I would have felt like I missed something huge, so I'm waiting there, concentrating, waiting to see how that second is going to feel because that's death.' Metin, who served in the Turkish army himself when he was 30-years-old, said he had no doubt what he was doing was right - and his actions have been praised all over the world with #tankman trending on Twitter.