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By Mert Ozkan ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish student Utku Ozdemiroglu and his father Cengiz were packing their bags for a flight home from Kyiv when the first bombs landed. Cengiz was in the city to accompany his son, a third year medical student, through to the end of his academic term at Kyiv University. By the time they heard that war was imminent and bought their tickets for Turkey, it was too late. “When the first explosion went off, the first bomb was fired, it shook the apartment like an earthquake… The windows were rattled. I thought they were shattering,” 24-year-old Ozdemiroglu told Re…