One of the most interesting pages of the July 15 coup attempt is the long night lived at the Akıncı Air Base, where Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar was held hostage by the coup soldiers until morning.
The indictment on the legal case about the Chief of General Staff’s central command offers interesting information on what one of the most critical actors of the July 15 coup attempt, Major General Mehmet Dişli was doing in the Çankaya Palace after landing there on the morning of July 16, 2016 with the Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar
I have been writing reviews about the main indictments regarding the July 15 coup attempt for a while now. I can say that a great part of my work hours consist of reading the indictments.
The Gülenist civil executive cadre, who played a key role in conducting the July 15 coup during the night at the Akıncı Base, was apprehended in the morning near the base. Their recount of “not being informed of the coup” poses a serious problem of credibility.
When an assistant professor (Dr. Adil Öksüz) at the Sakarya University Faculty of Theology gets caught by gendarmerie around Akıncı Base in an open field on July 15, 2016, the night of the coup attempt, and says he was looking for an estate ground, how convincing would that sound?
With the first anniversary of July 15 approaching, understanding what happened that night at the Akıncı air base carries a particular importance in order to properly reveal the essence of this coup attempt. Because Akıncı airbase is the operational brain center for the July 15, 2016, coup attempt
The main issues leading to the July 15, 2016 coup attempt can be analyzed through the minutes of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, which I have been examining for the past two weeks
“July 15 has compiled several lessons for us to draw from,” is the starting sentence of former National Security Organization (MİT) undersecretary Emre Taner’s opinion on the intelligence gap concerning last year’s coup attempt. Taner served between the years 2005 and 2010
I don’t want to spoil it for you but the finale of this will be: “Unless measures are taken,” a warning from years ago that signaled what is likely to happen.
