WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE JULY 15?
October 2015 – June 2016
During this period, there were 14 terrorist attacks allegedly caused by DAESH or PKK, and a total of 228 people died in these attacks. City actions against soldiers drew attention in the attacks. After these events, warnings and measures for terrorist attacks became routine in military units.
Upon the persistent request of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), approximately 40 people affiliated with the MİT visited the Akıncı Base, which is claimed to be the center of the so-called coup attempt. During this visit, made one and a half months before July 15th, questions were asked about all kinds of issues, including ammunition. This activity was the first time for both MİT and Akıncı Base. Although the reason for the visit was tried to be explained, it did not satisfy the public.
July 4, 2016
In the letter sent by the National Intelligence Organization to the Military Units, warnings were made regarding the possible attack of the terrorist organization, DAESH. Showing a great similarity with the events of July 15-16, 2016; intelligence information, such as the abduction of commanders, conflict in places such as Sultanbeyli, attacks on bases, ports, ships, official institutions and lodgings were the topics of this article.
July 11, 2016
Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to the hotel in Marmaris and nobody saw Erdogan until July 14th. Once the websites and newspaper archives in this date range were examined, it was seen that there was no news about Erdogan's whereabouts.
The Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition was signed between the Turkish Government and the Council of Europe after 57 years. In this protocol, the purpose of the provision that facilitates the extradition of the criminal in the event of "attempting or attempting to kill a head of state" was better understood after July 15.
July 14, 2016
In case of terrorist acts seriously disturbing the public order, the law amendment to Support Law Enforcement Forces in Social Events, which gives the Turkish Armed Forces the authority to intervene in social events, was published in the Official Gazette.
However, the protocol called EMASYA, based on the Provincial Administration Law, which regulates the aid to law enforcement forces in case of a request from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), was abolished by the AKP government on the grounds that it was preparing the ground for the coup. While it is stated that the so-called coup attempt was known beforehand, the rapid adoption of a law facilitating the departure of the TAF from the barracks instead of taking measures that severely restricts the activities of the TAF as a law enforcement agency remains a mystery.
After the Special Forces Specialization Course graduation ceremony, Hulusi Akar and Hakan Fidan had a private meeting for almost 4 hours. Later, Zekai Aksakallı and Hakan Fidan had a 40-minute private meeting. About the nature of the talks have been called the work of the Supreme Military Council, but no satisfactory explanation has been made so far.
JULY 15, 2016
13.20
With the anticipation of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, preparations were made for the Friday prayer in Marmaris Çamlı Village Mosque. However, it was not seen that Erdogan attended the Friday prayer neither in the Çamlı Village mosque nor in any other mosque. This situation was quite surprising for Erdogan, who usually meet with citizens after Friday prayers and answer journalists' questions.
14.20
Pilot Major O.K., who was working in the Army Aviation School Command, went to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and notified the coup. Major O.K. reported that the helicopters taking off from the Land Aviation Command would carry out an operation to the MİT and take the Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, and that this was a preparation for a coup. The notice was evaluated and a Deputy Undersecretary was sent to the General Staff to provide information.
18.10
Hakan Fidan, the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization, entered the General Staff Headquarters for the evaluation meeting. Although it was understood from the notice that a possible coup attempt was made, it was still not understood why Fidan went to the General Staff Headquarters, who was at risk of being detained.
At the end of the meeting, Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar asked the Land Forces Commander Salih Zeki Çolak to quickly go to the Army Aviation Command. He told him to reach the Army Aviation Command before 19:00, to inspect the surrounding area, and to arrest the pilots immediately in case of any flight.
18.30
Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar gave the order to ban all military flights across the country. Although it was thought that the denunciation made by O.K. could be part of a larger activity, the order of "not to leave the barracks" was not given by Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar. The question of why this order was not given for an operation that could end before starting with a single order remains a mystery.
18.36
Land Forces Commander Salih Zeki Çolak entered the Land Aviation School Command in Güvercinlik, Ankara. Despite knowing one of the key persons of the coup or the operation to the MIT by name, he did not even undertake a precautionary detention. He even received a briefing about a helicopter in the hangar from the pilot who was the subject of the notification, and he returned to Hulusi Akar with the information that everything was normal there.
20.22
MIT Undersecretary Hakan Fidan left the General Staff Headquarters where he was until that hour. This situation brings to mind the question of “why the people who did not make any attempt at the General Staff headquarters, who are accused of coup plotting and taking dozens of lives today, let the targeted person go away if they were the coup plotters.”
21.22
Special Forces Command team under the command of Fırat Alakuş entered the headquarters in order to take the safety of the Chief of General Staff.
21.37
With the names of the head of the Armed Forces Command Operations Center, Colonel Osman Kardal and the Enforcement Officer Major Erhan Metin appearing in the signature block, a message was sent with the title, "Preparedness warning and unit transfer". These messages are not original copies with wet signature, nor did the defendants plead guilty.
21.52
The message titled "Assignment", in which the name of Mehmet Partigöç, Head of Personnel Planning and Management Department and Cemil Turhan, General Admiral Branch Manager, was placed in the signature block, was sent to the General Staff and Commands. These messages are not original copies with wet signature, nor did the defendants plead guilty. Approximately three years later, it was revealed that there were great similarities between the list of filing and martial law assignment lists sent by the Ministry of National Defense to the Ankara 25th Heavy Penal Court.
22.21
The message titled "Martial Law Directive" with the phrase "Council of Peace at Home" in the signature block was sent to all ministries. The purpose of sending a martial law message to the Ministries, which are in the least ranks in the strategic importance ranking, is still a question mark. The 4 defendants, who allegedly sent this message and other messages, could not avoid being sentenced, although they proved that they were elsewhere with camera records.
23.03
Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar exited from the 1A gate and was taken to Akıncı Air Base by helicopter. Although Akar claimed that he was detained, it was revealed in the images emerged later that the soldiers next to him acted for protection purposes, he even wanted his cap from the soldiers, and warned the soldiers next to him to watch out for the propeller of the helicopter.
23.17
National Intelligence Organization (MİT) officer Sadık Üstün called his former circuit friend, the 8th Corps Commander in Elazığ, and said that "Full General Akın Öztürk was the possible military leader of the coup,” and this statement was recorded in the military ceride (notebook). Yet, at this hour Full General Akın Öztürk was still spending time with his grandchildren in the lodging, he had not yet been ordered by Air Force Commander Abidin Ünal to go to the Akıncı Base, and there was no sign of his connection with what happened at that night.
23.18
It was alleged that the Turkish National Police Department of Aviation was bombed by 110 tail-numbered F-16 aircraft. However, in the report prepared by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) within the scope of the file, it was determined that the aircraft with tail number 110 took off on July 14th and did not fly on July 15th.
JULY 16, 2016
00.00-00.30
A team (not the team of Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş) pretending to be a military unit was roped down to the beach in front of Erdoğan's villa. This team, who is still unknown, martyred Erdogan's protection police, Mehmet Cetin.
00.07
The students of the Air Force Academy, who were in the camp in Yalova, moved to the Yeşilköy Air Force Campus, which is a safe zone, due to the possibility of terrorist attacks. They reached the Bosphorus Bridge, passing through many police stations without any warning. They took shelter among the other military group that had closed the bridge because their bus was set on fire. In the morning, two cadets were lynched by the savages before they could explain their situation.
00.24
Connecting to CNN Türk's live broadcast through the Facetime application, President Erdoğan stated that this movement was the initiative of a small minority in the Turkish Armed Forces and called the people to take to the streets. As of today, it was still not understood why the people were invited to the streets when there was an armed force expressed in hundreds of thousands against only about 3000 coup plotters (!), which even the pro-AKP courts could detect.
01.00
Public Prosecutor Serdar Coşkun recorded what happened within the scope of the July 15 events and took the first step of the coup investigation. In the report, incidents that had never happened that night, such as the siege of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the clashes between the MIT personnel and these siege soldiers, the bombing of the Special Forces Command in Gölbaşı, the siege of the Ankara Police Department by the armed forces and the siege of the Presidential Palace were mentioned, which increased suspicions.
02.16
Semih Terzi, who was appointed as the Special Forces Commander with the message order before the martial law was issued yet, was shot two times by Ömer Halisdemir in Gölbaşı without any warning. Ömer Halisdemir was shot by the team personnel while running towards the wooded area with the gun in his hand. No investigation was even opened against Zekai Aksakallı, who ordered an illegal execution and committed the crime of deliberate instigation to kill within the framework of Turkish Penal Code, Article 38.
02.21
Civilians who took to the streets upon the call of Erdogan entered the General Staff barracks and then the Headquarters from the eastern entrance gate of the General Staff Headquarters. Approximately 50 civilians started wandering between floors shouting various slogans. There were intelligence-led provocateurs among them. Many of the General Staff personnel, who worked overtime for the purpose of the Supreme Military Council and similar works and could not go out, did not understand what was happening and tried to ensure the safety of the barracks.
02.30-03.00
The teams (not the team of Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş) pretending to be soldiers attacked the Grand Yazıcı Club Turban Hotel with helicopters. Nedip Cengiz Eker, one of the police officers sent to the scene, was martyred by the fake team that deployed around the hotel and set up a trap for the police. Who these teams consisted of is still a big mystery.
02.35
It was alleged that the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was bombed by 105 tail-numbered F-16 aircraft. The defendants stated that according to the flight recorder data, it was impossible for the aircraft with the tail number 105, which took off from Akıncı Base at 02.33, to press the bomb button after 2 minutes, that is at 02.35.
03.14
It was claimed that F-16 aircraft with the tail number 663 fired four bombs at TURKSAT. In the indictment, the time of the shootings of TURKSAT was stated as 03:14, 03:15, 03:17 and 03:19. According to the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) report that included the aircraft flight recorder data, this aircraft took off from the Akıncı Base at 03.19. During these explosions, the F-16 aircraft with the tail number 663 was still on the ground, and this event took its place among the unanswered questions.
03.20
Soldiers under the command of Şükrü Seymen were unloaded into the garden behind the Casa De Maris Hotel in Marmaris.
04.00
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued a warrant of detention for thousands of members of the judiciary alleged to be members of the organization. While there was a threat like a coup and the perpetrators were expected to be soldiers, the detention order of the members of the judiciary could not be understood.
06.17
Police Special Operations, which kept the Gendarmerie General Command under fire during the night with the claim that the coup was managed from there, started to take the soldiers inside. Gendarmerie Captain Yasin Özdemir was shot and killed in the barracks while he was advancing towards the security forces in order to surrender with his hands in the air, half naked and without any threat. There was no effective investigation about the perpetrators and the incident was not clarified.
07.45
It was stated that an operation was organized against Ankara Akıncı Base and Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar was rescued. However, the camera footage in the court file revealed that Hulusi Akar was greeted and taken away in accordance with the protocol while he was arriving and leaving the base.
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER JULY 15?
“If you want to find the perpetrator of an event, look who it serves a purpose” principle is a fundamental principle accepted by strategists, intelligence, and academics. Let's look at whom the events of July 15 served;
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan's fearful dream, the corruption files of December 17-25, was made to forget; even the opposition parties were unable to pronounce these dates.
- With the referendum on April 16, 2017, the official name of the one-man system, Presidential Government System, was adopted. Parliament was rendered dysfunctional.
- The system of separation of powers came to an end, and the principles of judicial independence and impartiality became inapplicable.
- The media was turned into a single voice, and not a single dissenting, critical news could be encountered except for a few voices allowed by the system. The public was sacrificed to perception management and perception media.
- In the Turkish Armed Forces, the pro-western, law and democracy-respecting soldiers were purged, and this situation was confessed by Doğu Perinçek in Iran with these words: “With an operation, the NATO and EU sector in the Turkish Armed Forces was cleared. We expelled 30,000 soldiers, including generals and officers.”
- The 2000-year tradition of the Turkish Armed Forces was collapsed, the disciplinary system was ransacked. Officers who could not even walk properly began to grow.
- Deep structures that could not live in a democratic and legal environment became stronger again. Practices such as torture, kidnapping and tagging are back again.
- The war environment that every dictatorial regime needed was passed into. Prudent soldiers who refused to embark on adventures in war with Syria were purged and declared putschists.
In the meantime, many illegal, unlawful and cruel acts have taken place in line with the characteristics of genocide and crimes against humanity. In this context;
- Nearly six hundred thousand people have been investigated for alleged membership of a terrorist organization. The international conventions agreed by Turkey such as the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Civil Rights have been ignored and the right of freedom and security have been shelved.
- It was passed into the state of emergency and more than one hundred and thirty thousand civil servants were dismissed during this period.
- A large number of newspapers, TVs, agencies and radios were shut down in the field of media coverage, claiming that "they have relations with terrorist organizations".
- One hundred and eight-one thousand people were banned from going abroad by limiting their passports. The freedom of free movement enshrined in the Constitution was shelved by preventing families without a criminal charge from going abroad.
- Since the declaration of the state of emergency, 657 people who were directly or indirectly affected by the events have lost their lives.
- Without any evidence, thousands of people's properties were seized by the state. Trustees have been appointed to many organizations, especially companies and municipalities.
- Hundreds of thousands of innocent people, a considerable part of which are women, have been arrested, sentenced to imprisonment on false grounds and continue to be imprisoned.