On the night of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, movement was observed at the Akıncı Air Base, which was used by the coup plotters as a headquarters, particularly in the VIP lounge, just across from the commander room.
In the coup attempt case regarding the General Staff Headquarters, the defendants have denied everything to the judge. But they could not explain the camera records, and they answered some questions illogically and quite strangely, triggering reactions from the public.
One of the key figures in the July 15, 2016, coup attempt was the head of the Strategic Transformation Department of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. Mehmet Dişli. While defending himself in a statement to the prosecutor on July 18, 2016, he said: “I have worked with the commander for 16 years at several levels. I regard the commander as a part of my family.”
The Turkish public still does not have an answer to the question on whether or not the tip off provided by pilot Major O.K. in the early afternoon of July 15, 2016, by personally visiting the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) headquarters, was properly assessed.
First question that stands out in the debate on the tipoff to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) headquarters on the day of the coup attempt on July 15 is whether it was “an exact warning” of a coup.
Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar spent most of his office hours on July 15, 2016 in preparations for the upcoming Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) meeting, due to convene at the beginning of August. Together with Commander of the Land Forces Gen. Salih Zeki Çolak, Akar went through the lists, reviewing names one by one.
The stances of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan on the night of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 were the hottest debate last week.
“It is a very low probability that the high-tension line there was not known,” a retired helicopter pilot said after a crash last week in the southeastern province of Şırnak killed 13 soldiers. “It is a wide region. There are dozens of high-voltage transmission lines. They are known to pilots but maybe because of the surrounding light conditions, it could have escaped attention.”
According to the Army Aviation Command prosecutor’s indictment, the structuring of the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen within the Turkish military was done through “cells, each led by an ‘abi’ [older brother].”
