They could have prevented the coup

Special Forces Commander Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, as a witness in the case regarding the shooting of noncommissioned officer Ömer Halisdemir, said the first measure to be taken in a crisis in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) is to give the order, "No personnel to leave the barracks!"

In any kind of crisis and extraordinary situation, as soon as the news breaks out, this is the first measure to be taken, he said. "Commanding officers continue their shift indoors. This basic and simple rule that has always been practiced has not been made effective when the first news broke in July 15 [2016]. If it had been applied, the coup attempt would have been exposed at the beginning," he said. 

Do you remember, Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Ümit Dündar, in the statement he gave to a parliamentary commission, said that "if the coup tipoff was taken seriously, the Chief of General Staff could have prevented the attempt at the beginning by giving other orders."

Thus, in the period starting from the visit of Major H.A. to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) informing the coup until the start of the coup attempt, if "adequate" assessments had been done, then so many of our people would not have been martyred by the putschists. Those who were injured and disabled would have been living their lives safe and sound today.  

Major H.A. tipped off that there was going to be an operation conducted against the MİT Undersecretary who would be kidnapped following a raid on his house with three helicopters.  

Somehow the Chief of General Staff and the MİT Undersecretary did not assess this as a "coup attempt." 
When the two underestimated this, a high-level anti-terror meeting was taking place. If they had evaluated the tipoff together...