Usual suspects at an air base on July 15

With the first anniversary of July 15 approaching, understanding what happened that night at the Akıncı air base carries a particular importance in order to properly reveal the essence of this coup attempt. Because Akıncı airbase is the operational brain center for the July 15, 2016, coup attempt.

Akıncı, in this regard, is a location that can play a role in identifying the identities of those responsible of the coup. This is the place where the transmission line functioned on the night of July 15, between the soldiers who carried out the coup and the "civilian leg" that directed the coup and said the final word on behalf of the organization. And that night on this base, the civilian cadre who played a determining role in the coup activity takes us directly to the Pennsylvania address.

This base, first of all, worked as the main command center in the conduct and coordination of the coup operation throughout Turkey.

Besides, this is also the place where the Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and other high level commanders were held hostage after being apprehended. Likewise, it is the place where the coup plotters tried to convince Akar to get him on their side and Akar tried to talk them out of it by directly speaking to them (the military leg) and sending indirect messages. The coup plotters had even intended to have Akar address Turkey on a state-run TRT broadcast.

The coup's launch was also made at Akıncı. The special forces who would apprehend Akar had departed at this point by a white bus to the General Staff. Likewise, helicopters taking off from the Güvercinlik base first went to Akıncı and raged terror on Ankara airspace after getting their instruction from there.

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