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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. 

According to statements from Air Maj. Gen. Kubilay Selçuk, one of the defendants of the Akıncı case, the incident occurred a little while after it got dark. 

Selçuk was, in fact, the commander of the second main jet base command in İzmir's Çiğli district. What was a major general, whose place of duty is İzmir, doing on the night of the coup attempt at Akıncı?

According to his statements given to the prosecutor, he was in fact going that day to head to Istanbul for the wedding of a lieutenant general's daughter; he had in fact bought his flight ticket. On the morning of July 15, however, he backtracked and decided to go to Akıncı to hold a coordination meeting about pilots' training due to "his wife's pains due to the inflammation of a herniated disc." Selçuk boarded a military transport aircraft taking off from İzmir to Ankara that day at 12:30 p.m.

"As I entered the VIP lounge, there was a long-haired person dressed in civilian dress and another person in military uniform inside. I asked them what they were doing. They told me, 'There will be a presentation, we are preparing for that in the VIP lounge,'" Şelçuk said. 

According to his testimony, the unit's flag had been removed from the rostrum of the VIP lounge and had been replaced with the flag of the General Staff. "Now that you are getting prepared this way, you can cover the Akıncı Air Base's own flag in front of the rostrum with a small flag," Selçuk told the two individuals in the lounge. 

According to this testimony, the long-haired...