July 15 and Akıncı Air Base (11): Prepared at the 143, executed at the 141

First lieutenant Müslim Macit is the pilot with the lowest rank who joined the coup attempt on the night of July 15 at Akıncı Air Base.

Following the question, "who here has the lowest rank?" to the F-16 pilots who were gathered at the 141st Fleet, the first mission given to Macit was to stay in front of the computer at the "desk" and translate the targets into co-ordinates which the aviators could use.

In his prosecution testimony, Lieutenant Macit said the parliament's front yard, Kızılay Square, Chief of the General Staff, Security Department Special Operations Center, National İntelligence Agency (MİT), Türksat (Turkish communications satellites) and Gendarmerie General Commandership were among the places he remembers as the places he identified as coordinates. He put the colorful photocopies of the targets' photographs on the "desk" in such a way that their coordinates are also visible. The coup plotter pilots going for the flights took these photocopies and stepped in the F-16s. They later went on to the stage of sending the coordinates to the fighter aircrafts in the air.

The operation at Akıncı Air Base on the night of the coup attempt was carried out on two fleets. The first of them was the 141st Fleet where the first lieutenant Macit and the pilots who were undertaking the flight missions were based. The 141st Fleet was the operational center. The aircrafts took off from here. Akıncı Air Base's operations leader, Staff Colonel Ahmet Özçetin was situated here when the attempt began.

The chain of command center for both the Akıncı Base and the coup attempt was at the 143rd Fleet. The 141st Fleet is near Sincan's southern point on a three kilometer long runway and the 143rd Fleet is on the northern point of the runway...