How did Hulusi Akar Lay the Stones of the July 15 Trap?
Abuse of the Barracks Safety Concept
The efforts of the personnel who were on duty or on overtime to ensure the security of the barracks on July 15 were considered a coup attempt. However, the question of why those who were considered to be putschists tried to defend the barracks instead of going out of the barracks and seizing certain points was not answered.
For example, while there were staff working overtime in the General Staff due to SUP (Supreme Military Council) preparations, this was entitled as the center of the putschists, and the civilian people among whom provocateurs were placed were sent to the headquarters. What should the personnel working overtime have done, apart from ensuring the safety of the barracks, while the intelligence-affiliated person named Muşlu Apo coming from Edirne and similar people were walking around the headquarters with cutting and piercing tools?
In addition, we learn from the executive assistant of Hulusi Akar, Colonel Ramazan Gözel, that Hulusi Akar paid special attention to the safety of the barracks and followed this very closely.
“Hulusi Akar gave importance to barracks safety and barracks security. Mr. President, he always said that the primary duty of a soldier is the safety of himself and the barracks. Hulusi Akar is such a person that: According to him, in a possible event, the biggest danger is the citizens’ entry into the barracks. Therefore, he always asked from his personnel to practice on this issue. After a flag lowering incident that took place in a military unit in Diyarbakır in 2013, he stated that if someone entered his barracks without permission, he would punish the barracks commander heavily. He also asked his personnel to prepare plans on this issue when he was the Land Forces Commander. Again, he started while he was the Land Forced Commander, he then continued as the Chief of General Staff, he asked from his personnel to study on how to use tanks and armored vehicles in a social event and on how to use them in cities.”
What was it telling us, the intellectual preparation conducted by Hulusi Akar before July 15 by giving priority to barracks security, saying "the biggest danger is the citizens’ entry into the barracks?”
Again, what was it for, the order by Hulusi Akar to investigate how tanks and armored vehicles would be used in social events? Doesn't the thesis that the intention of the tanks sent to the General Staff because it was said that there was an attack was not a coup get stronger in such an environment of preparation and vigilance?
