Who told PM that it was a coup, if not the intelligence?

The first anniversary of the July 15, 2016, coup attempt is over but there are still unanswered questions about it, which makes it more difficult to understand what actually happened that night and how the Gülenists, who are accused of plotting the coup, managed to stage it.

One of those questions is how Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım found out about it in spite of the fact that he says Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), did not inform him even when Yıldırım phoned him that night amid the unfolding incidents.

This question is relevant because according to the Turkish legislation, the MİT chief is directly responsible for reporting to the Prime Minister, and it was Yıldırım who was the first voice from the government to address the people through a telephone connection with the private channel NTV at 23:02, almost two hours after the coup soldiers pushed the button and said this was not a coup done by the military's chain of command but an "uprising" by a junta taking orders from Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is accused of masterminding the coup to overthrow the Turkish government. 

Yıldırım recently repeated his complaint in an interview on July 15 with daily Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Fikret Bila.

In the interview, he said he thought he called Fidan sometime between 22:30 and 23:00, "probably 22:40," but "could not get that information" from Fidan, the information being that there was a coup attempt going on. He also said despite his question, Fidan "did not say anything about the coup at that stage."

Interestingly enough, Yıldırım had made similar remarks right after the coup attempt in 2016.

For example, on July 23, 2016, only a week after the...