Face Transplant: What Does It Mean to Wear a Stranger’s Face? – Health

When Cengiz Gül puts the phone down again, he knows that everything has to happen quickly. He had been waiting for this call for a long time, 12 years ago. His doctor tells him that a man died in a motorcycle accident. The man’s heart was still beating, his brain was dead. The most important thing for Cengiz Gül, then 25, was that the man’s face survived the accident intact.