How did Major General Dişli get arrested at the Prime Ministry?
The indictment on the legal case about the Chief of General Staff's central command offers interesting information on what one of the most critical actors of the July 15 coup attempt, Major General Mehmet Dişli was doing in the Çankaya Palace after landing there on the morning of July 16, 2016 with the Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar.
The indictment's 839-843 pages include the information as to with whom the head of the Strategic Transformation Department of the General Staff Mehmet Dişli spoke with on the day of the coup attempt and afterwards on his mobile phone number 0530 662 0390 that was assigned to him.
But before going on to this information, I want to underline other information I find to be very striking. In this phone line belonging to Dişli, there are no communication records from 7:55 p.m. on July 7, 2016 to 3:25 p.m. on July 11 and also from 8:08 p.m. on July 11 to 8:35 p.m. on the night of July 15, 2016. We understand from this that Major Gen. Dişli has turned off his mobile phone during the preparation period prior to the coup in a way not to leave any trail. Then, when did Dişli turn on his phone and whom did he call first? On July 15 at 8:35 p.m., he called Col. Orhan Yıkılkan, the chief adviser to the Chief of General Staff, one of the putschists at the General Staff Headquarters. As the video recordings show Dişli's white-colored vehicle entered the General Staff premises at 8:45 p.m., the major general must have called Col. Yıkılkan when he was about to leave his residence on Paris Street in Ankara's Kavaklıdere neighborhood.
Afterwards at around 9:00 p.m., it is none other than Major Gen. Dişli who entered the Chief of General Staff Gen. Akar's room and said according to Akar's testimony, "My commander, the...
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